White v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““Short answers are, first, that since the decision of the Supreme Court in Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U. S. 488 , 6 L. Ed. 2d 982 , on June 19, 1961, the committing magistrate and the State’s attorney (both of whom necessarily were elected or appointed after 1961) could not be required to profess a belief in God as a prerequisite to qualifying for an office of profit or trust, and similarly the complaining witness could cause a warrant to be issued without declaring that he believed in the existence of a Supreme Being; second, the record is silent as to whether the two officials on taking office or the witness in procuring the warrant in fact did or did not declare a belief in God; and, third, that if any or all of the three voluntarily did declare a belief in God obviously he exercised a constitutionally guaranteed right of religious freedom.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 4 Md. App. 450 - Hartley v. State