
Forced Confession
Broadcast: February 18, 1951
Starring:
Maurice Copeland,
Laurette Fillbrandt,
Donald Gallagher,
Arthur Peterson ,
Hope Summers,
Bob McKee,
John Cowan,
Emil Soderstrom,
Everett Clark,
Charles Chan,
Jose Bettencort,
Alma Platt,
Helen Morton,
Geraldine Kaye,
Billie McKee,
Russ Reid,
Bill Rose,
Johnny Catulli
Added: Aug 27 2018
Today's episode tells a story about 'due process of the law', which protects the processes of justice from the corrosion of arbitrary power. Police officials must keep law and enforce order, even when zeal may over balance responsibility for finding the true criminal. In today's case, a forced confession was used to obtain a conviction at trial, and the defendant now petitions that his rights under the clause of the constitution were violated...