Volume 399 — United States Reports

This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 399 of the United States Reports:

Vale v. Louisiana, 399 U.S. 30 (1970) was a search and seizure case decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1970, in which the Court held that a search of a suspect's house is not "incident to the arrest" when the suspect's arrest took place outside. The police officers therefore required a search warrant.

Chambers v. Maroney, 399 U.S. 42 (1970), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court applied the Carroll doctrine in a case with a significant factual difference—the search took place after the vehicle was moved to the stationhouse. The search was thus delayed and did not take place on the highway (or street) as in Carroll. After a gas station robbery, a vehicle fitting the description of the robbers' car was stopped. Inside were people wearing clothing matching the description of that worn by the robbers. They were arrested, and the car was taken to the police station where it was later searched.

Baldwin v. New York, 399 U.S. 66 (1970), was a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial for offenses requiring imprisonment of more than six months.

Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Fifth Amendment does not entitle a defendant in a criminal trial to refuse to provide pre-trial notice of some details of his alibi witnesses to the prosecution, and that the Sixth Amendment does not require a jury to have 12 members.

Held: over my dissent, joined by Mr. Justice Stewart, that a state criminal defendant is entitled to a jury trial in any case which, if brought in a federal court, would require a jury under the Sixth Amendment.

Held: nonetheless, that '(c)learly, petitioner's inability to cross-examine * * * at trial may have had a significant effect on the 'integrity of the fact-finding process." Id., at 315, 89 S.Ct. at 541. 82 Preliminary hearings in California are not atypical in their nature and objectives: 83 'In most California criminal prosecutions the preliminary examination is conducted as a rather perfunctory uncontested proceeding…

Phoenix v. Kolodziejski, 399 U.S. 204 (1970), was a voting rights case decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1970.

Held: and on February 8, 1967, George was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for 12 to 15 years. The conviction was thereafter affirmed, State v. George, 271 N. C. 438 , 156 S. E. 2d 845 (1967). Following the North Carolina trial George was returned to San Quentin to complete service of his California sentence.

Williams v. Illinois, 399 U.S. 235 (1970), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that, if a person cannot afford to pay a fine, it violates the Equal Protection Clause to convert that unpaid fine into jail time to extend a person's incarceration beyond a statutory maximum length.

United States v. Sisson, 399 U.S. 267 (1970), was a legal case decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1970. The case is related to Selective Service law.

from pages 350-351 intentionally omitted] Daniel M. Friedman, Washington, D.C., for appellant. Philip L. Roache, Jr., Washington, D.C., and Robert B. Meyner, Newark, N.J., for appellees.

Gunn v. University Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, 399 U.S. 383 (1970), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court that since the District Court has issued neither an injunction nor an order granting or denying one, Supreme Court has no jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1253, which provides for review of orders granting or denying interlocutory or permanent injunctions.