Brown v. Mississippi

Brown v. Mississippi
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 10, 1936 Decided February 17, 1936
Full case name	Brown, et al. v. State of Mississippi
Citations	297 U.S. 278 (more) 56 S. Ct. 461; 80 L. Ed. 682
Case history
Prior	Brown v. State, 173 Miss. 542, 161 So. 465, 158 So. 339 (1935); cert. granted, 296 U.S. 559 (1935).
Holding
A confession extracted through police brutality cannot be entered as evidence and violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland Pierce Butler · Harlan F. Stone Owen Roberts · Benjamin N. Cardozo
Case opinion
Majority	Hughes, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Brown v. Mississippi, 297 U.S. 278 (1936), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that a defendant's involuntary confession that is extracted by the use of force on the part of law enforcement cannot be entered as evidence and violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.