CHANCE v. CALIFORNIA
Citation | 389 U.S. 89 |
Decision Date | 06 November 1967 |
Court | United States Supreme Court |
Certiorari granted; judgment reversed.
Marshall W. Krause for petitioner.
Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General of California, and Robert R. Granucci and Michael J. Phelan, Deputy Attorneys General, for respondent.
The motion to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is reversed. Redrup v. New York, 386 U.S. 767.
MR. JUSTICE HARLAN would affirm for the reasons set forth in his separate opinion in Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 496, 500-503, and in his dissenting opinion in Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413, 455.
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