United States v. Price
1966 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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United States v. Cecil Price, et al., also known as the Mississippi Burning trial or Mississippi Burning case, was a criminal trial where the United States charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to murder three young civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman) in Philadelphia, Mississippi on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer. The trial, conducted in Meridian, Mississippi with U.S. District Court Judge W. Harold Cox presiding, resulted in convictions of 7 of the 18 defendants. Another defendant, James Edward Jordan, pleaded guilty and testified for the prosecution.[1]
Quick Facts United States v. Price, Argued November 9, 1965 Decided March 28, 1966 ...
United States v. Price | |
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Argued November 9, 1965 Decided March 28, 1966 | |
Full case name | United States v. Cecil Price, et al. |
Citations | 383 U.S. 787 (more) 86 S. Ct. 1152; 16 L. Ed. 2d 267 |
Case history | |
Prior | Indictments dismissed by District Court (reversed and remanded) |
Subsequent | 7 of the 18 defendants convicted on remand |
Holding | |
The 14th amendment grants the United States authority to indict state actors and all private citizens who assist state actors during alleged crimes became de-facto state actors themselves and as a result, find themselves in the exact same legal jeopardy as the de jure state actors they assisted. District court reversed. | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Fortas, joined by unanimous |
Concurrence | Black |
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