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ADAMS v. TEXAS

No. 79-5175.

448 U.S. 38 (1980)

100 S.Ct. 2521

65 L.Ed.2d 581

ADAMS v. TEXAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvyn Carson Bruder argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were J. Stephen Cooper and George A. Preston.

Douglas M. Becker, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Mark White, Attorney General, John W. Fainter, Jr., First Assistant Attorney General, Ted L. Hartley, Executive Assistant Attorney General, and W. Barton Boling, Assistant Attorney General.*

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This capital case presents the question whether Texas contravened the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments as construed and applied in Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510 (1968), when it excluded members of the venire from jury service because they were unable to take an oath that the mandatory penalty of death or imprisonment for life would not "affect [their] deliberations...

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