Wardius v. Oregon

This ease involves important questions concerning the right of a defendant forced to comply with a “notice-of-alibi” rule to reciprocal discovery.

In Williams v. Florida, 399 U. S. 78 (1970), we upheld the constitutionality of Florida's notice-of-alibi rule which required criminal defendants intending to rely on an alibi defense to notify the prosecution of the place at which they claimed to be at the time in question, and of the names and addresses of witnesses they intended to call in support of the alibi.1 In so holding, however, we emphasized that the constitutionality of such rules might…