Witherspoon v. Illinois
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witherspoon-v-illinois-314-4847005
title:
Witherspoon v. Illinois
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Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510 (1968), was a U.S. Supreme Court case where the court ruled that a state statute providing the state unlimited challenge for cause of jurors who might have any objection to the death penalty gave too much bias in favor of the prosecution. The Court said, The decision in this case would cause the Supreme Court of California to order a retrial on the penalty phase in the 1972 case of California v. Anderson, and when the case was heard for the third time, would
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1968 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witherspoon_v._Illinois
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2023-09-13T03:38:05Z
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