Summary

Beck v. Washington (365 U.S. 866…

Where petitioner was a member and officer of a labor union, and where prejudicial and inflammatory charges against him were being widely and intensively disseminated by all news media, did he have a right under the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to have the grand pury impaneled in a manner which would prevent or at least tend to prevent the selection of biased and prejudiced grand jurors?
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