ALLEN

v.

ILLINOIS

Citator

Cited By

• Stein v. New York, 346 U.S. 156 (U.S. 1953)
  …It is first-degree murder and carries a mandatory death sentence unless the jury recommends life imprisonment. New York Penal Law, §§ 1044 (2), 1045, 1045-a. No such recommendation was made here. People v. Cooper, 303 N. Y. 856, 104 N. E. 2d 917. 344 U. S. 815. The defense argued that Waterbury’s recollection was inaccurate and that he had only 25% vision in one eye. The defense says that this constitutes a coerced confession— Stein having made the statement in police custody. It was not a confession of…
• Cranor v. Gonzales, 226 F.2d 83 (9th Cir. 1955)
  …uestion. In the Stein case the Supreme Court had before it no facts other than those contained in the State court record which had been certified to the Supreme Court upon the issuance of the writ of cer-tiorari to the Court of Appeals of New York, 344 U.S. 815, 73 S.Ct. 51, 97 L.Ed. 634. In considering that record the Supreme Court was acting in a purely appellate capacity and had neither precedent nor means for adding any new facts to the record before it. We think the situation there is accurately desc…