"to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."
About Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, advocating judicial restraint.
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