WITHERSPOON v. ILLINOIS

No. 344, Misc.

389 U.S. 1035 (1968)

WITHERSPOON v. ILLINOIS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

January 15, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer Gertz on the motion for Illinois Division, American Civil Liberties Union. Albert E. Jenner, Jr., Thomas P. Sullivan and John C. Tucker for petitioner. William G. Clark, Attorney General, and John J. O'Toole and Donald J. Veverka, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Illinois, and John J. Stamos, Elmer C. Kissane and Joel M. Flaum, for Woods, respondents.


Motion of Illinois Division, American Civil Liberties Union, for leave to file a brief, as amicus curiae, granted. Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari granted and case transferred to appellate docket, limited to the following question: Whether the operation of the Illinois statute providing that the State could challenge for cause all prospective jurors who were opposed to, or had conscientious scruples against, capital punishment...

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