Supreme Court of the United States, 1986

Lane v. Enoch

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided March 3, 1986 · Rehnquist, White, Whom

475 U.S. 1053; 106 S. Ct. 1281; 89 L. Ed. 2d 588; 54 U.S.L.W. 3580; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 681 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

C. A. 7th Cir. Motion of respondents for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari denied.

Dissenting Opinion

Justice White, with whom The Chief Justice and Justice Rehnquist join,

dissenting.

For the reasons I have twice before stated, Smith v. Jago, 470 U. S. 1060 (1985) (dissenting), Taliaferro v. Maryland, 461 U. S. 948 (1983) (dissenting), I dissent from the Court’s refusal to resolve the important question, which has divided the lower courts, of when, if ever, a State may exclude a defense witness on account of a criminal defendant’s failure to comply with a discovery rule.

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