Supreme Court of the United States, 1966

Greer v. Beto

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided May 31, 1966 · Wainwright

384 U.S. 269; 86 S. Ct. 1477; 16 L. Ed. 2d 526; 1966 U.S. LEXIS 1588 (United States Reports)

Counsel

William E. Gray for petitioner., Waggoner Carr, Attorney General of Texas, Hawthorne Phillips, First Assistant Attorney General, T. B. Wright, Executive Assistant Attorney General, and Howard M. Fender, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Cases that cite this one

78 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

State v. Cameron (Iowa 1969)
Crawford v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 1968)
Linda S. Moore v. Pat Jarvis, Sheriff, De Kalb County, Georgia (11th Cir. 1989)
In re the Personal Restraint of Williams (Wash. 1988)
United States v. Benton D. Burt (9th Cir. 1986)
Raiford v. State (Md. 1983)
Workman v. Cardwell (District Court, N.D. Ohio 1972)
McComb v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 1972)
United States v. William Erness Thoresen, United States of America v. Louise Banich Thoresen (9th Cir. 1970)
Forrest S. Tucker v. United States (9th Cir. 1970)
Leroy Shorter, Also Known as Roy Lee Shorter v. United States (9th Cir. 1969)
Ex Parte Stevenson (Tex. Crim. App. 1968)
Ex Parte Greer (Tex. Crim. App. 1966)
State v. Edgar Farfan-Galvan (Idaho 2016)
Ex Parte Auten (Tex. Crim. App. 1970)
State v. Koch (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 1972)
Young v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 1972)
State v. Koch (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 1972)
Simmons v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 1970)
James Arthur Baxley v. State (Tex. App. 2018)
Palmentere v. United States (District Court, W.D. Missouri 2001)
State v. Okland (Mont. 1997)
United States v. Gantt. (District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania 1987)
Middleton v. State (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 1986)
State v. Dowd (Me. 1984)

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Opinion

Per Curiam.

The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is reversed. Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335; Doughty v. Maxwell, 376 U. S. 202; see Garner v. Pennsylvania, 372 U. S. 768; United States ex rel. Durocher v. LaVallee, 330 F. 2d 303 (C. A. 2d Cir.).

Mr. Justice Harlan would set the case for argument, believing that the retroactivity of Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335, as applied in a recidivist case, presents problems of its own that are deserving of plenary consideration.

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