WHIDDON

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Richardson v. Ramirez, 418 U.S. 24 (U.S. 1974)
  …of three-judge District Courts rejecting constitutional challenges to state laws disenfranchising convicted felons. Fincher v. Scott, 352 F. Supp. 117 (MDNC1972), aff’d, 411 U. S. 961 (1973); Beacham v. Braterman, 300 F. Supp. 182 (SD Fla.), aff’d, 396 U. S. 12 (1969). Both District Courts relied on Green v. Board of Elections, 380 F. 2d 445 (1967), cert. denied, 389 U. S. 1048 (1968), where the Court of Appeals for the [*54] Second Circuit held that a challenge to New York’s exclusion of convicted felons…

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• Johnson v. Governor OF the State OF Fla., 405 F.3d 1214 (11th Cir. 2005)
  …s have recognized the propriety of excluding felons from the franchise. See Richardson, 418 U.S. at 54-55, 94 S.Ct. 2655; Green v. Board of Elections, 380 F. 2d 445, 450-52 (2d Cir.1967); Beacham v. Braterman, 300 F.Supp. 182, 184 (S.D.Fla.), aff'd, 396 U.S. 12, 90 S.Ct. 153, 24 L.Ed.2d 11 (1969). Second, the current Florida provision was passed one hundred years after the alleged intentional discrimination occurred, whereas Mississippi’s provision was passed shortly after the end of de jure segregation i…

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• Byrle L. Dillenburg v. Kramer, 469 F.2d 1222 (9th Cir. 1972)
  …cision to do so has a rational basis, as elaborated by Judge Friendly in Green v. Board of Elections of the City of New York, 380 F. 2d 445 (2 Cir. 1967) cert. den. 389 U.S. 1048, 88 S.Ct. 768, 19 L.Ed.2d 840 (1968). Thereafter, the Supreme Court at 396 U.S. 12 (1969) summarily affirmed Beacham v. Braterman, 300 F.Supp. 182 (1969) wherein a three-judge court held constitutional a similar exclusion of felons from the franchise by the Constitution and laws of Florida. Consequently, to ask two more judges to…

Authorities Cited

• Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (U.S. 1957)
• Heflin v. United States, 358 U.S. 415 (U.S. 1959)