ELLIS

v.

DIXON ET AL., MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF YONKERS

Citator

Cited By

• Leyra v. Denno, 347 U.S. 556 (U.S. 1954)
  …iew in this Court, again urging that he was denied due process on the ground that his confessions to a police captain and to two assistant state prosecutors were forced. We granted certiorari because the constitutional question appeared substantial. 347 U. S. 926. The use in a state criminal trial of a defendant's confession obtained by coercion — whether physical or mental — is forbidden by the Fourteenth Amendment.3 The question for our decision is therefore whether the present confessions were so coerced…
• Miranda v. United States, 255 F.2d 9 (1st Cir. 1958)
  …viously and had been rejected by the district court. See United States v. Long, D.C.P.R.1954, 118 F.Supp. 857. An attempt had then been made, without success, to have the Supreme Court of the United States consider the question. Ex parte Long, 1954, 347 U.S. 926, 74 S.Ct. 534, 98 L.Ed. 1079. When the question was raised by the defendant in this case, the district court again rejected, upon the basis of its holding in the Long case, the contention that the court lacked jurisdiction to try the defendant and i…
• Ellis v. Dixon, 349 U.S. 458 (U.S. 1955)
  …ed. The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Black, Mr. Justice Douglas and Mr. Justice Clark dissent, believing that the allegations of the petition are sufficient to state a case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause. Certiorari was granted. 347 U. S. 926. The case was set for reargument both on the merits and as to the jurisdiction of this Court. 348 U. S. 881. The state statute, insofar as applicable here, allows each board of education to adopt reasonable regulations for the use of school propert…