Summary

Portrait of Hugo Black Hugo Black Jenkins v. McKeithen — Concurrence

The Louisiana law here, like the federal law considered in the Hannah case, is, in my judgment, nothing more nor less than a scheme for a nonjudicial tribunal to charge, try, convict, and punish people without courts, without juries, without lawyers, without witnesses-in short, without any of the procedural protections that the Bill of Rights provides.
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