Sheppard v. Maxwell

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Sheppard v. Maxwell, 384 U.S. 333 (1966), was a United States Supreme Court case that examined the rights of freedom of the press as outlined in the 1st Amendment when weighed against a defendant's right to a fair trial as required by the 6th Amendment. In particular, the court sought to determine whether or not the defendant was denied fair trial for the second-degree murder of his wife, of which he was convicted, because of the trial judge's failure to protect Sheppard sufficiently from the massive, pervasive, and prejudicial publicity that attended his prosecution. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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384 U.S. 333

Sheppard v. Maxwell

Argued: Feb. 28, 1966. --- Decided: June 6, 1966

F. Lee Bailey, Boston, Mass., for petitioner.

Bernard A. Berkman, Cleveland, Ohio, for American Civil Liberties Union, and others, as amici curiae.

William B. Saxbe, Columbus, Ohio, and John T. Corrigan, Cleveland, Ohio, for respondent.

Mr. Justice CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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