Court Opinion

ID: 9535598
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:51:09.316885+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:17.202741
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Justice,
Concurring.
I join in the Opinion of the Court. “The naive assumption that prejudicial effects can be overcome by instructions to the jury, cf. Blumenthal v. United States, 332 U.S. 539, 559, 68 S.Ct. 248, 257, 92 L.Ed. 154, all practicing lawyers know to be unmitigated fiction.” Krulewitch v. United States, 336 U.S. 440, 453, 69 S.Ct. 716, 723, 93 L.Ed. 790 (1949) (Jackson, J., joined by Frankfurter & Murphy, JJ., concurring). This case amply demonstrates that what Justice Jackson said in 1949 applies today, thirty years later, with full force.