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...courts. But may that attack continue into federal courts via a habeas corpus petition? In a heroin possession case, a four-man minority argued that "the great writ was not designed as a means of freeing persons who have voluntarily confessed guilt." Justices Potter Stewart, William Brennan, William Douglas, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun endorsed the procedure as a practical way of permitting "the constitutional issues [to] be litigated without the necessity of going through ... a trial." The result may be more guilty pleas -meaning fewer trials for state courts -but perhaps also more habeas petitions and thus a heavier...
...dissenting opinion, Justice Thurgood Marshall saw the High Court's ruling as "a major step in repudiating" a line of past decisions granting constitutional protections to persons dealing with state-regulated monopolies. The court's stance, wrote Marshall, "is bound to lead to mischief...
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood W. Marshall presided over the final argument of the Ames Moot Court Competition last night before 600 people at the Law School...
...decision. The majority included all four of the "strict constructionists" appointed by President Nixon-Burger, William Rehnquist, Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell-plus Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee. They were heatedly opposed by the court's four remaining Warren-era holdovers-William Brennan, Byron White, William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall. White, Douglas and Marshall filed dissenting opinions. Marshall, the court's only black member, described the ruling as "a giant step backward" for the court in the desegregation area. "In the short run," he wrote, "it may seem to be the easier course to allow our great metropolitan...
...THURGOOD MARSHALL, 66, a Democrat appointed by Lyndon Johnson in 1967, won a score of cases while representing the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund before the Supreme Court prior to 1962, but now finds himself in the Burger Court's liberal minority. The court's best raconteur, who sometimes likes to jive groups of whites by lapsing ostentatiously into a broad black dialect. Has collected an informal panel of law professors and judges to help choose his clerks, who as a result are now usually the best in the building. Still impatient with legal complexities, preferring to go to the right...