Court Opinion

ID: 9842026
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-22 20:12:26.300645+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:09:11.103155
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Stevens,
concurring.
Even though I have not changed the views I expressed in Marks v. United States, 430 U. S. 188, 198; Smith v. United States, 431 U. S. 291, 311-321; and Splawn v. California, 431 U. S. 595, 602-605, I do not believe that I have the authority to vote to modify the judgment below on a ground not fairly subsumed within the question presented by the petition for certiorari.* That question is whether conviction by a non-*140unanimous six-person jury of a nonpetty offense violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. Because this is the only question addressed by the Court and because I agree with the Court's resolution of this question, I join its opinion.

See this Court’s Rule 23 (1) (e) (“Only the questions set forth in the petition or fairly comprised therein will be considered by the court”); *140Mazer v. Stein, 347 U. S. 201, 208, and n. 6; General Talking Pictures Corp. v. Western Electric Co., 304 U. S. 175, 177-179.