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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 154.
    Miller v. California.
    
      F. Lee Bailey and Alan M. Dershowitz for petitioner.
    
      Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General of California, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Philip C. Griffin, Deputy Attorney General, for respondent.
   Ct. App. Cal., 4th App. Dist. Certiorari granted limited to Questions 1 and 2 presented by the petition which read as follows:

“1. Whether the introduction of admissions made to an undercover agent planted in petitioner’s jail cell constituted a violation of petitioner’s constitutional rights to counsel and against self-incrimination.

“2. Whether inculpatory admissions, obtained under circumstances like those here involved, can ever constitute harmless error.”