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In ''Brewer v. Williams'', 430 U.S. 387 (1977), the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled by a 5-4 margin that a murder conviction must be overturned because the defendant led officers to the victims body without the presence of defense counsel.  In dissent, Chief Justice [[Warren Burger]] broke from his ordinarly reserved and dignified mannerisms and declared, "The result in this case ought to be intolerable in any society which purports to call itself an organized society."
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In '''''Brewer v. Williams''''', 430 U.S. 387 (1977), the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled by a 5-4 margin that a murder conviction must be overturned because the defendant led officers to the victims body without the presence of defense counsel.  In dissent, Chief Justice [[Warren Burger]] broke from his ordinarly reserved and dignified mannerisms and declared, "The result in this case ought to be intolerable in any society which purports to call itself an organized society."
    
The basis for the Court to overturn the conviction was that a police officer delivered to the defendant, during a 160-mile car ride in Iowa, what became known as the "Christmas burial speech":  
 
The basis for the Court to overturn the conviction was that a police officer delivered to the defendant, during a 160-mile car ride in Iowa, what became known as the "Christmas burial speech":  
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