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Legal Citation: 176 U.S. 581 (1900)

Appellant
Charles L. Maxwell

Appellee
George N. Dow, Warden of the Utah State Prison

Appellant's Claim
That he had been wrongfully convicted of robbery, based on violation of his rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
J. W. N. Whitecotton

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Alexander C. Bishop

Justices for the Court
David Josiah Brewer, Henry Billings Brown, Horace Gray, Melville Weston Fuller, Joseph McKenna, Rufus Wheeler Peckham (writing for the Court), George Shiras, Jr., Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan I

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
26 February 1900

Decision
Upheld the appellant's conviction.

Significance
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