Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: The latter case is L-1283. There Judge Brown's order of dismissal referred to the prior opinion of Judge Stanley, saying that no new legal or factual grounds were presented, and also expressed his view against the retro-activity of O'Callahan. Our record initially covered only the latter case, but we have since caused a supplementary record of the pertinent portions of the first proceeding to he incorporated in view of the appeal in both cases. Opportunity was afforded for additional memoranda addressing the supplemental record, but the parties did not find this necessary. The record now covers all the proceedings in both cases except a hearing transcript in the former case. Chief Judge Stanley's opinion indicates that there were no disputed f 22, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776 (<HOLDING>) ; Smith v. Crouse, Warden, 378 U.S. 584, 84
Holding statements: (A) holding retroactive application (B) holding retroactive the rule that persons with conscientious or religious scruples against capital punishment cannot be excluded from juries (C) holding that the act is retroactive (D) holding no retroactive application (E) holding that the act is not retroactive
A:
(B)