BIRD

v.

MURPHY, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By (16 total)

• Piccott v. State, 116 So. 2d 626 (Fla. 1959)
  …e most extreme penalty allowed by law and their intended use of a recommendation to mercy to avoid such a penalty because of opposition to capital punishment. See United States v. Puff, 2 Cir., 1954, 211 F. 2d 171, 48 A.L.R.2d 540, certiorari denied 347 U.S. 963, 74 S.Ct. 713, 98 L.Ed. 1106, rehearing denied 347 U.S. 1022, 74 S.Ct. 876, 98 L.Ed 1142, and 348 U.S. 853, 75 S.Ct. 20, 99 L.Ed. 672. See also Hardy v. United States, 186 U.S. 224, 22 S.Ct. 889, 46 L.Ed. 1137, where it was held there was no impropr…
• Spinkellink v. Louie L. Wainwright, 578 F.2d 582 (5th Cir. 1978)
  …tes, 251 U.S. 15, 20-21, 40 S.Ct. 50, 52, 64 L.Ed. 103 (1919); Crawford v. Bounds, 4 Cir., 1968, 395 F. 2d 297, 301-04, cert. denied, 397 U.S. 936, 90 S.Ct. 941, 25 L.Ed.2d 117 (1970); United States v. Puff, 2 Cir., 211 F. 2d 171, 184, cert. denied, 347 U.S. 963, 74 S.Ct. 713, 98 L.Ed. 1106 (1954). Had a venireman expressed either attitude, he could appropriately be described as prosecution-prone and would properly have been struck for cause. E. g., Witherspoon v. Illinois, supra, 391 U.S. at 521, 88 S.Ct…
• Pope v. United States, 372 F.2d 710 (8th Cir. 1967)
  …urberville v. United States, 112 U.S. App.D.C. 400, 303 F. 2d 411, 418-421 (1962), cert. denied 370 U.S. 946, 82 S.Ct. 1596, 8 L.Ed.2d 813 and in the opinion of Judge Hincks in United States v. Puff, 211 F. 2d 171,180-186 (2 Cir. 1954), cert. denied 347 U.S. 963, 74 S.Ct. 713, 98 L. Ed. 1106. It is well pointed out, in either or both of those opinions, that “The point at which an accused is entitled to a fair cross-section of the community is when the names are put in the box from which the panels are drawn…