Moore V. Dempsey

Moore V. Dempsey

Moore et al. v. Dempsey, 261 U.S. 86 (1923), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled 6-2 that the defendants' mob-dominated trials deprived them of due process guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and reversed the district court's decision declining the petitioners' writ of habeas corpus.

Read more about Moore V. Dempsey:  The Facts of The Case, The Investigation, The Appeal, Effects of The Decision

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