Ashcraft v. Tennessee (1946)

Ashcraft v. Tennessee
Ashcraft v. Tennessee
	Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 25, 1946
Full case name	Ashcraft v. Tennessee
Citations	327 U.S. 274 (more)
Holding
	Admitting narrative testimony about the interrogation that elicited an excluded confession can be considered equivalent to the excluded confession, requiring it to also be excluded.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed; Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas; Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson; Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
Majority	Black, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Frankfurter (in judgment)
	Jackson took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Ashcraft v. Tennessee, 327 U.S. 274 (1946), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that admitting narrative testimony about the interrogation that elicited an excluded confession can be considered equivalent to the excluded confession, requiring it to also be excluded.^[1]^[2]

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^ Ashcraft v. Tennessee, 327 U.S. 274 (1946).
^ Bennett, John Ballard (1954). "Decade of Change Since the Ashcraft Case". Tex. L. Rev. 32: 429.

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[case-1] Ashcraft v. Tennessee, 327 U.S. 274 (1946).

[2] Bennett, John Ballard (1954). "Decade of Change Since the Ashcraft Case". Tex. L. Rev. 32: 429.

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