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Timestamp: 2019-04-26 06:38:09+00:00

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Missouri Supreme Court's judgment rejecting petitioner's constitutional challenge, on appeal of his conviction, to the Missouri statute allowing any woman who so elects to be excused from jury service is vacated, and the case is remanded for reconsideration in light of Duren v. Missouri, ante p. 439 U. S. 357.
Certiorari granted; 556 S.W.2d 42, vacated and remanded.
judgment below is vacated, and the case is remanded for reconsideration in light of Duren v. Missouri, ante, p. 439 U. S. 357.
As I noted in my concurrence in Hankerson v. North Carolina, 432 U. S. 233, 432 U. S. 246 (1977), the Court's attempt to fashion a satisfactory retroactivity doctrine in the years since Linkletter v. Walker, 381 U. S. 618 (1965), has not succeeded. I adhere to the view expressed in Hankerson that the wisest approach to this problem is that outlined by Mr. Justice Harlan in Mackey v. United States, 401 U. S. 667, 401 U. S. 675-702 (1971). That approach "contemplates, in rough outline, that courts apply a new rule retroactively in cases still pending on direct review, whereas cases on collateral review ordinarily would be considered in light of the rule as it stood when the conviction became final." Hankerson, supra, at 432 U. S. 248. As all of these cases are before us on direct review, the application to them of the principles announced in Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U. S. 522 (1975), and Duren v. Missouri, ante, p. 439 U. S. 357, is proper. Accordingly, I concur in the judgments of the Court.

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