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Escobedo v. Illinois. June 22, 1964. Click the card to flip 👆. After being arrested and taken into police custody as a suspect in the murder of his brother-in-law, the petitioner asked to speak to his attorney.
The vote was 5-4 in favor of Escobedo because his rights had been violated and the information used against him as evidence unlawfully obtained. What was the effect of the decision? The decision made the 6th Amendment more clear; that criminally accused should still be protected under the law and what and what not can be used as evidence.
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Case opinion for US Supreme Court ESCOBEDO v. ILLINOIS. Read the Court's full decision on FindLaw.
Escobedo v. Illinois. 378 U.S. 478. Case Year: 1964. Case Ruling: 5-3, Reversed and Remanded. Opinion Justice: Goldberg. FACTS. At 2:30 A.M. on January 20, 1960, police arrested Danny Escobedo, a twenty-two-year-old of Mexican extraction, for the murder of his brother-in-law.
ESCOBEDO v. ILLINOIS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 22, 1964. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1964. In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion.
ESCOBEDO V. ILLINOISOne of three important cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1960s on the subject of the right to counsel, Escobedo v. Illinois 378 U.S. 478, 4 Ohio Misc. 197, 84 S.Ct. 1758, 12 L.Ed.2d 977 (U.S.Ill. 1964), was a far-reaching decision which held for the first time that defendants had a right to counsel even before they were indicted for a particular crime.
