Legal Opinion

Spence v. North Carolina

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 17, 1968No. 759 MPublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Per curiam

The motions for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petitions for writs of certiorari are granted. The 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.

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968

3Cited by47 opinions

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  2. State v. SilhanSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1981
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  4. Martin McNally v. The Pulitzer Publishing Company and Ted GestCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
  5. State v. EtheridgeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1987

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