Pickens v. Oliver

Full title: PICKENS v . OLIVER, WARDEN

Court: U.S.

Date published: Jun 10, 1968

392 U.S. 300 (1968)

Opinion

ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA.

No. 1076.

Decided June 10, 1968.

Certiorari granted; vacated and remanded.

George T. Davis for petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General of California, Albert W. Harris, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Derald E. Granberg, Deputy Attorney General, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

The motion for leave to proceed further in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment of the Supreme Court of California is vacated and the case is remanded to that court for further consideration in light of Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123. See Roberts v. Russell, ante, p. 293.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN and MR. JUSTICE WHITE dissent for the reasons stated in MR. JUSTICE WHITE'S dissenting opinion in Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 138 (1968).