townsend
burke
argued
april
decided
june
townsend
burke
archibald
cox
cambridge
petitioner
franklin
barr
philadelphia
respondent
justice
jackson
delivered
opinion
commonwealth
pennsylvania
holds
petitioner
prisoner
two
indeterminate
sentences
exceeding
years
upon
plea
guilty
burglary
robbery
review
state
denial
habeas
prisoner
demands
discharge
federal
constitutional
grounds
petitioner
fugitive
indicted
june
burglary
armed
robbery
four
alleged
accomplices
arrested
may
signed
joint
confession
fifth
arrested
may
also
june
confessed
june
confessed
petitioner
arrested
june
pleading
guilty
two
charges
robbery
two
charges
burglary
guilty
charges
sentenced
petitioner
alleges
violation
constitutional
rights
excet
conversation
wife
held
incommunicado
period
hours
arrest
plea
guilty
allege
beaten
misused
threatened
intimidated
held
period
several
times
interrogated
allege
questioning
continuous
coercive
effect
plea
relief
detained
claims
unlawfully
based
mcnabb
rule
applied
one
use
confessions
obtained
illegal
detention
limited
federal
courts
applied
virtue
supervisory
power
present
case
confession
used
plea
guilty
open
dispensed
proof
crime
hence
lawfulness
detention
factor
determining
admissibility
confession
temporarily
detained
illegally
bearing
validity
present
confinement
based
plea
guilty
particularly
since
makes
allegation
induced
plea
petitioner
also
relies
haley
ohio
reversed
state
murder
conviction
believed
based
confession
wrung
uncounseled
boy
held
incommunicado
questioning
relays
police
several
hours
late
night
even
aside
differing
facts
case
provides
precedent
relief
prisoner
since
said
confession
used
allege
pleas
guilty
resulted
allegedly
illegal
detention
petitioner
also
says
brought
plead
represented
counsel
offered
assignment
counsel
advised
right
counsel
instructed
particularity
nature
crimes
charged
says
circumstances
deprived
conviction
sentence
constitutional
validity
reason
due
process
clause
fourteenth
amendment
recently
majority
reaffirmed
due
process
clause
fourteenth
amendment
prohibit
state
accepting
plea
guilty
case
uncounseled
defendant
bute
illinois
earlier
cases
indicated
however
disadvantage
absence
counsel
aggravated
circumstances
showing
resulted
prisoner
actually
taken
advantage
prejudiced
make
case
violation
due
process
proceedings
petitioner
following
plea
guilty
consisted
recital
officer
details
crimes
petitioner
others
pleaded
guilty
following
action
italics
supplied
addressing
townsend
townsend
old
yes
sir
larceny
automobile
larceny
produce
larceny
bicycle
entering
steal
larceny
entering
steal
larceny
doylestown
tried
arrested
indoylestown
mantown
avenue
robbed
paint
store
brother
tried
yes
guilty
entering
steal
rceny
ridge
avenue
brother
receiving
stolen
goods
saxophone
want
saxophone
hope
play
prison
band
ten
twenty
penitentiary
trial
facetiousness
casts
somewhat
somber
reflection
fairness
proceeding
learn
record
actually
charge
receiving
stolen
saxophone
dismissed
prisoner
discharged
magistrate
savors
foul
play
carelessness
find
record
two
charges
recited
defendant
also
found
guilty
charge
larceny
automobile
charge
entry
steal
larceny
resulted
discharge
adjudged
guilty
liberty
assume
items
given
emphasis
sentencing
influence
sentence
prisoner
serving
believe
record
us
evident
uncounseled
defendant
either
overreached
prosecution
submission
misinformation
prejudiced
misreading
record
counsel
present
duty
prevent
proceeding
false
assumptions
perhaps
duty
seek
remedy
elsewhere
persisted
consequently
record
conclude
disadvantage
lack
counsel
prisoner
sentenced
basis
assumptions
concerning
criminal
record
materially
untrue
result
whether
caused
carelessness
design
inconsistent
due
process
law
conviction
stand
make
clear
reaching
result
petitioner
allegation
sentence
unduly
severe
sentence
within
limits
set
statute
severity
grounds
relief
even
direct
review
conviction
much
less
review
state
denial
habeas
corpus
duration
severity
sentence
renders
constitutionally
invalid
careless
designed
pronouncement
sentence
foundation
extensively
materially
false
prisoner
opportunity
correct
services
counsel
provide
renders
proceedings
lacking
due
process
mean
mere
error
resolving
question
fact
plea
guilty
uncounseled
defendant
case
necessarily
indicate
want
due
process
law
fair
prosecutors
conscientious
judges
sometimes
misinformed
draw
inferences
conflicting
evidence
agree
even
erroneous
judgment
based
scrupulous
diligent
search
truth
may
due
process
law
case
counsel
might
changed
sentence
taken
steps
see
conviction
sentence
predicated
misinformation
misreading
records
requirement
fair
play
absence
counsel
withheld
prisoner
reversed
chief
justice
justice
reed
justice
burton
dissent
footnotes
respondent
raised
procedural
jurisdictional
issues
state
since
petitioner
throughout
based
claim
relief
solely
alleged
deprivation
federal
constitutional
rights
assume
questions
considered
pennsylvania
therefore
open
herndon
lowry
pennsylvania
frequently
held
state
constitutional
provision
according
defendants
right
heard
counsel
require
appointment
counsel
noncapital
cases
see
example
commonwealth
ex
rel
mcglinn
smith
commonwealth
ex
rel
withers
ashe
see
also
betts
brady