State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell

Target entity: State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell
Context triple: [Marshall, portraysEvent, State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell]

• A. Palko v. Connecticut
  Palko v. Connecticut is a 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped define the doctrine of selective incorporation by holding that only certain fundamental rights in the Bill of Rights apply to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
• B. Spinelli v. United States
  Spinelli v. United States is a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision that refined the standards for evaluating probable cause based on informants’ tips under the Fourth Amendment, later modified by the more flexible totality-of-the-circumstances test in Illinois v. Gates.
• C. Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Apprendi v. New Jersey is a landmark 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that any fact (other than a prior conviction) that increases a criminal defendant’s sentence beyond the statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
• D. United States v. Comstock
  United States v. Comstock is a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s authority to civilly commit mentally ill, sexually dangerous federal prisoners beyond their release date under the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause.
• E. Murdock v. Pennsylvania
  Murdock v. Pennsylvania is a 1943 U.S. Supreme Court case that held it unconstitutional to impose a license tax on the distribution of religious literature, reinforcing First Amendment protections for religious proselytizing.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell
Target entity description: State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell was a 1941 criminal case in which a Black chauffeur was accused of raping his white employer in Connecticut, later famously defended by Thurgood Marshall and dramatized in the film "Marshall."

• A. Palko v. Connecticut
  Palko v. Connecticut is a 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped define the doctrine of selective incorporation by holding that only certain fundamental rights in the Bill of Rights apply to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
• B. Spinelli v. United States
  Spinelli v. United States is a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision that refined the standards for evaluating probable cause based on informants’ tips under the Fourth Amendment, later modified by the more flexible totality-of-the-circumstances test in Illinois v. Gates.
• C. Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Apprendi v. New Jersey is a landmark 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that any fact (other than a prior conviction) that increases a criminal defendant’s sentence beyond the statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
• D. United States v. Comstock
  United States v. Comstock is a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s authority to civilly commit mentally ill, sexually dangerous federal prisoners beyond their release date under the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause.
• E. Murdock v. Pennsylvania
  Murdock v. Pennsylvania is a 1943 U.S. Supreme Court case that held it unconstitutional to impose a license tax on the distribution of religious literature, reinforcing First Amendment protections for religious proselytizing.
• F. None of above. chosen