Court Opinion

ID: 9423327
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:07:09.24298+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:52.071933
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Mr. Justice Brennan,
with whom Mr. Justice Douglas joins,
dissenting.
I join the opinion of The Chief Justice insofar as that opinion would reverse in Nos. 68 and 69. I would, *588however, also reverse in No. 70. It seems to me that the constitutional error here involved undermined “the very integrity of the fact-finding process,” Linkletter v. Walker, 381 U. S. 618, 639, and I would therefore apply the rule retroactively. Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335; Douglas v. California, 372 U. S. 353; Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U. S. 12; Jackson v. Denno, 378 U. S. 368.