Lynum v. Illinois

368 U.S. 908

82 S.Ct. 190

7 L.Ed.2d 128

Beatrice LYNUM, petitioner,

v.

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

No. 80.

Supreme Court of the United States

November 13, 1961

Consideration of the petition for certiorari is deferred to accord counsel for petitioner opportunity to secure a certificate from the Supreme Court of Illinois as to whether the judgment herein was intended to rest on an adequate and independent state ground, or whether decision of the federal claim, identified in respondent's second response as having been asserting by the petitioner at pages 66-67 in her brief in the Supreme Court of Illinois, was…