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392 U.S. 652

88 S. Ct. 2302

20 L. Ed. 2d 1357

Docket No. 1301, Misc.

Wheat v. Washington

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1968-06-17

Relies on Bruton v. United States · Witherspoon v. Illinois

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Vacated and remanded · 6–3 · Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1968-06-17

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Cited by 26 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2004 · most notably Spalding Et Al. v. Aiken (1983), 89 Wash. 2d 256 - State v. McDonald (1977)

4 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions

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Arthur Nathaniel AIKEN

v.

WASHINGTON.

No. 1535, Misc.

Supreme Court of the United States

October Term, 1967.

June 17, 1968

Charles M. Stokes, for petitioner Antonio Nathaniel Wheat.

Anthony Savage, Jr., for petitioner Arthur Nathaniel Aiken.

James E. Kennedy, for respondent.

On Petitions for Writs of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Washington.

PER CURIAM.

¶1

The motions for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petitions for writs of certiorari are granted. The judgments of the Supreme Court of Washington are vacated and the cases remanded to that court for reconsideration in the light of Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 20 L.Ed.2d 476, and Witherspoon v. State of Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776.

¶2

Mr. Justice BLACK dissents.

¶3

Mr. Justice HARLAN dissents for the reasons stated in Mr. Justice Black's dissenting opinion in Witherspoon v. State of Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 532, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 1782, and Mr. Justice White's dissenting opinion in Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 138, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 1629.

¶4

Mr. Justice WHITE dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinions in Witherspoon v. State of Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 540, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 1786, and Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 138, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 1629.

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