Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Greer v. Beto
384 U.S. 269
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1966-05-31
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- summarily reversing holding of Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that conviction obtained in violation of Gideon v. Wainwright could be used in subsequent proceeding to enhance sentence under a recidivist statute
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Per Curiam.
The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is reversed. Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335; Doughty v. Maxwell, 376 U. S. 202; see Garner v. Pennsylvania, 372 U. S. 768; United States ex rel. Durocher v. LaVallee, 330 F. 2d 303 (C. A. 2d Cir.).
Mr. Justice Harlan would set the case for argument, believing that the retroactivity of Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335, as applied in a recidivist case, presents problems of its own that are deserving of plenary consideration.