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Title: Clewis v. Texas
Author : Supreme Court of the United States
Release Date : January 24, 1967
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 54 KB

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Petitioner, Marvin Peterson Clewis, stands convicted of the murder, by strangulation, of his wife, Dorothy Mae Clewis. The jury which found him guilty imposed a sentence of 25 years imprisonment. During the course of his trial, petitioner moved to exclude from evidence three statements he had made while in police custody. Petitioner claimed that these statements had not been voluntarily made, and that their use against him at his trial would deny him due process of law, as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Evidence was taken by the court outside of the jurys