WALLER

v.

FLORIDA

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• Waller v. Florida, 397 U.S. 387 (U.S. 1970)
  …ss, when this Court granted certiorari in Price v. Georgia, No. 269, 1969 Term, it requested that counsel “brief and argue [the] question of retroactivity of Benton v. Maryland, [395 U. S. 784], and whether that decision is applicable to this case.” 395 U. S. 975 (1969). By our decisions in the instant case and in Ashe v. Swenson, supra, we do not resolve, with respect to the circumstances presented in Price v. Georgia, supra, either of the two questions posed by the Court in that case. Decisions of the Sta…
• Price v. Georgia, 398 U.S. 323 (U.S. 1970)
  …as involving the application of only “plain and unambiguous” constitutional provisions. The petitioner’s motion was then denied. Thereafter the Georgia Supreme Court denied certiorari, and petitioner sought review in this Court. We granted the writ, 395 U. S. 975 (1969), and now reverse. (1) In United States v. Ball, 163 U. S. 662, 669 (1896), this Court observed: “The Constitution of the United States, in the Fifth Amendment, declares, ‘nor shall any person be subject [for the same offense] to be twice pu…
• Michigan v. Payne, 412 U.S. 47 (U.S. 1973)
  …not resolve this controversy. See n. 3, infra. This Court has twice previously granted certiorari to resolve this question, but on each occasion the writ was dismissed as improvidently granted. Moon v. Maryland, 398 U. S. 319 (1970) (cert. granted, 395 U. S. 975 (1969)); Odom v. United States, 400 U. S. 23 (1970) (cert. granted, 399 U. S. 904 (1970)). This Court has consistently declined to reach out to resolve unsettled questions regarding the scope or meaning of decisions establishing “new” constitutiona…