Supreme Court· 10/14/1968

DeStefano v. Woods

Citations

392 U.S. 631
88 S. Ct. 2093
20 L. Ed. 2d 1308
1968 U.S. LEXIS 1144

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holding that procedural rule applying the Sixth Amendment’s jury-trial guarantee to the states has no retroactive effect
declining to give retroactive application to a 1968 decision that extended the jury-trial guarantee to the states
declining to give retroactive application to a 1968 decision that extended the jury-trial guarantee to the states
Supreme Court decisions holding states could not deny jury trial in serious criminal cases and criminal contempt cases did not apply retroactively to trials before those decisions
Supreme Court decisions holding states could not deny jury trial in serious criminal cases and criminal contempt cases did not apply retroactively to trials before those decisions
defendant’s erratic behavior at trial, standing alone, does not sufficiently call to the “attention of the trial judge anything that would warrant a sanity hearing”

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Judges: Douglas, Harlan, Stewart, Louisiana, Illinois, Black

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