Supreme Court of the United States, 1967

Rundle v. Johnson

Rundle v. Johnson
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided February 13, 1967 · Douglas
386 U.S. 14; 87 S. Ct. 847; 17 L. Ed. 2d 695; 1967 U.S. LEXIS 2272 (United States Reports)

Rundle v. Johnson

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is reversed, Spencer v. Texas, 385 U. S. 554, and the case is remanded to that court for consideration of the unresolved issues.

Dissenting Opinion

Mr. Justice Douglas

dissents from the reversal of the Court of Appeals in United States v. Rundle, 349 F. 2d 416, which affirmed United States v. Rundle, 243 F. Supp. 695, 700, where the District Court granted the petition for habeas corpus since the introduction of the accused’s “prior criminal record for obstructing a railroad was so fundamentally unfair as to deny him due process .of law.”

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