http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1932/ U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>Did the trials violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?</p><p>Yes. The Court held that the trials denied due process because the defendants were not given reasonable time and opportunity to secure counsel in their defense. Though Justice George Sutherland did not rest the Court holding on the right-to-counsel guarantee of the Sixth Amendment, he repeatedly implicated that guarantee. This case was an early example of national constitutional protection in the field of criminal justice.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1932/1932_98/