Sims v. Georgia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where suspect had only third grade education, was deprived of contact with anyone outside, and was subjected to earlier physical violence by officers, advising him of his right not to speak was of little significance
• holding that where suspect had only third grade education, was deprived of contact with anyone outside, and was subjected to earlier physical violence by officers, advising him of his right not to speak was of little significance
• finding confession involuntary where, inter alia, defendant had been in custody for eight hours without food
• taking into consideration the fact the defendant was illiterate and possessed only a third-grade education
• Negroes constituting 24.4% of the taxpayers limited to 4.7% of those on the grand jury list
• Negroes constituting 24.4% of the taxpayers limited to 4.7% of those on the grand jury list

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