LEGO v. TWOMEY

No. 6046.

401 U.S. 992 (1971)

LEGO v. TWOMEY, WARDEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 29, 1971.


Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari granted limited to Question 1 as set forth in the petition, which reads as follows:

"1. Was the Illinois evidentiary rule for determining the voluntariness of extra-judicial confessions so highly unreliable as to contravene the Appellant's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights and, necessarily, deprive the Appellant of the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination because...

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