Brown v. Mississippi References Brown v. Mississippi law case Ask Anything Homework Help Written by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them. The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Britannica AI Ask Anything Learn about this topic in these articles: confession/ Confession in U.S. legal historyIn Brown v. Mississippi (1936), however, the Supreme Court for the first time invalidated a state criminal conviction on the grounds that the conviction was based on a coerced confession. Read MoreIn Brown v. Mississippi (1936), however, the Supreme Court for the first time invalidated a state criminal conviction on the grounds that the conviction was based on a coerced confession. Read More