Case: Maxwell v. Bishop, Penitentiary Superintendent
Abbreviation: Maxwell v. Bishop
Decision Date: 1968-12-16
Docket Number: No. 622
Citation: 393 U.S. 997
Volume: 393
Reporter: United States Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Maxwell v. Bishop, Penitentiary Superintendent.
Judges: 
Pages: 997–998

Head Matter:
No. 622.
Maxwell v. Bishop, Penitentiary Superintendent.

Opinion:
C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari granted limited to Questions 2 and 3 of the petition which read as follows:
"2. Whether Arkansas' practice of permitting the trial jury absolute discretion, uncontrolled by standards or directions of any kind, to impose the death penalty violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
"3. Whether Arkansas' single-verdict procedure, which requires the jury to determine guilt and punishment simultaneously and a defendant to choose between presenting mitigating evidence on the punishment issue or maintaining his privilege against self-incrimination on the guilt issue, violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?"
Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Norman C. Amaker, Michael Melts-ner, George Howard, Jr., and Anthony G. Amsterdam for petitioner.
Joe Purcell, Attorney General of Arkansas, and Don Langston, Deputy Attorney General, for respondent.
Case set for oral argument immediately following No. 642 [Boykin v. Alabama, ante, p. 820].