Brown v. Illinois
| Brown v. Illinois | |
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| Argued March 18, 1975 Decided June 26, 1975 | |
| Full case name | Richard Brown v. State of Illinois |
| Citations | 422 U.S. 590 (more) 95 S. Ct. 2254; 45 L. Ed. 2d 416 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | People v. Brown, 56 Ill. 2d 312, 307 N.E.2d 356 (1974); cert. granted, 419 U.S. 894 (1974). |
| Holding | |
| Miranda warnings do not automatically purge the taint of an unlawful arrest. A court must examine the time between the arrest of a suspect and the suspect's confession, any intervening circumstances, and the purpose and the flagrancy of official misconduct when determining if the confession of a properly Mirandized but illegally arrested suspect may be admitted as evidence. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Blackmun, joined by Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall |
| Concurrence | White |
| Concurrence | Powell, joined by Rehnquist |
Brown v. Illinois, 422 U.S. 590 (1975), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Fourth Amendment's protection against the introduction of evidence obtained in an illegal arrest is not attenuated by reading the defendant their Miranda Rights.