Supreme Court of the United States, 1968

Spence v. North Carolina

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided June 17, 1968 · Black, Harlan, Illinois

392 U.S. 649; 88 S. Ct. 2290; 20 L. Ed. 2d 1350; 1968 U.S. LEXIS 1159 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Sam, Houston Clinton, Jr., for petitioner in No. 1311, Mise., T. W. Bruton, Attorney General of North Carolina, and Harry W. McCalliard, Deputy Attorney General, for respondent in No. 759, Mise. Crawford C. Martin, Attorney General of Texas, Nola White, First Assistant Attorney General, Hawthorne Phillips and Lonny F. Zwiener, Assistant Attorneys General, and A. J. Ca-rubbi, Jr., for respondent in No. 1311, Mise. Mr. Martin, Miss White, and Robert C. Flowers, Douglas H. Chilton, and Mr. Zwiener, Assistant Attorneys General, for respondent in No. 1823, Mise.

Cases that cite this one

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

Rudy Gonzales v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections (5th Cir. 1971)
Ronald Clark O'Bryan v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent (5th Cir. 1983)
Smith v. United States (D.C. 1980)
State v. Helms (N.C. 1974)
State v. Childs (N.C. 1972)
State v. Etheridge (N.C. 1987)
State v. Sanders (N.C. 1970)
State v. Spence (N.C. 1968)
State v. Cooper (N.C. 1975)
Bean v. State (Nev. 1970)
State v. Rogers (N.C. Ct. App. 2013)
State v. Alston (N.C. 1978)
State v. Thomas (N.C. 1978)
State v. Humphrey (N.C. 1973)
State v. Watkins (N.C. 1973)
State v. Westbrook (N.C. 1971)
Webb v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 1971)
Nash v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 1971)
Smallwood v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 1971)
Robert Eddie Louis Jackson v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections (5th Cir. 1970)
State v. Benjamin (La. 1969)
State v. Benjamin (La. 1969)
Ellison v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 1968)
Ronald Newsom Hasan Sharif Eddie J. McMillan and Donald Wolverton v. Steve Norris, Commissioner Michael Dutton, Warden and David Hindman (6th Cir. 1989)
Indianapolis Colts v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and Capital Improvement Board of Managers of Marion County (7th Cir. 1984)

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Opinion

Per Curiam.

The motions for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petitions for writs of certiorari are granted. The *650 judgments of the courts below are vacated and the cases remanded for reconsideration in the light of Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U. S. 510.

Mr. Justice Black and Mr. Justice Harlan dissent, for reasons stated in Mr. Justice Black's dissenting opinion in Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U. S. 510, 532. Mr. Justice White dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U. S. 510, 540.

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