Talk:Sheppard v. Maxwell

More work
This page needs more work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.62.120.233 (talk) 24 April 2007‎

First SCOTUS case
This was actually Sheppard's second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court. After his 1954 conviction, Sheppard exhausted his appeals through the Ohio Supreme Court, and petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for certiorari on a Fourteenth amendment claim. The Supreme Court denied cert, but with an unusual statement from Justice Frankfurter sympathizing with Sheppard and explaining that the denial of cert in no way a determination of the merits. See Sheppard v. Ohio, 352 U.S. 910 (1956). This is probably worth a mention here, although I don't see exactly where to fit it in. Maybe a "prior history" section, listing the full appellate history: the 1950s state appeal and SCOTUS case; and the 1960s habeas case. TJRC (talk) 23:08, 29 March 2013 (UTC)