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Three Major Supreme Court Cases

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The United States Supreme Court has heard many cases since it was established in 1788, but there were three major cases that were most prominent in my view. Though every Supreme Court case played a major role in history, the most prominent three were Palko vs. Connecticut, Brown vs. Board of Education, and Miranda vs. Arizona. These three cases established some major things that we use within the government to this day, and with that, these cases play a prominent role in United States history.
The first major case, Palko vs. Connecticut, was heard by the Supreme Court in 1937 and involved Frank Palko, a man whom was charged with second-degree murder in the state of Connecticut. When it was heard by the state of Connecticut, his conviction was appealed to seek higher degree conviction. The state’s local statute allowed the state to appeal criminal conviction, along with the defendant himself. Setting aside the second-degree murder conviction, the courts retried and convicted him of first-degree murder. After Palko’s conviction, he brought an action to claim that the procedural statute was unconstitutional because he claimed that it violated his 5th amendment guarantee against double jeopardy. Palko fought for protection against double jeopardy to be a fundamental right, but his effort for this fundamental right failed. …show more content…

Board of Education. The decision of this case is known as one of the greatest decision of the 20th century. Charges were filed against the Topeka, Kansas school board by Oliver Brown, a parent of one of the children that were denied access to Topeka’s white schools. It was stated that Topeka’s racial segregation is a violation of the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause because the schools were not equal. Brown vs. Board of Education is acknowledged as a signal for the start of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, but also represented the fall of

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