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Legal Citation: 342 U.S. 165 (1952)

Petitioner
Antonio Richard Rochin

Respondent
State of California

Petitioner's Claim
That the police violated his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to not give self-incriminating testimony and his right to due process of law when they induced vomiting to obtain two capsules of morphine, which they used as evidence to convict him.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioner
Dolly Lee Butler, A. L. Wirin

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
Howard S. Goldin

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, Harold Burton, Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter (writing for the Court), Robert H. Jackson, Stanley Forman Reed, Fred Moore Vinson

Justices Dissenting
None (Sherman Minton did not participate)

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
2 January...