Adamson v. California (1947) Self-incrimination, Selective Incorporation

Audio of the 1947 opinion of the Court in Adamson v California. 

The question before the Supreme Court of the United States was whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination applied to state courts through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Court found that it did not - and it would not apply to the states until 1964 in Malloy v. Hogan.

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