# The People v. Bernette

> Illinois Supreme Court · March 24, 1970 · 45 Ill. 2d 227

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9884742

## Case

- **Full name:** The People of the State of Illinois, Appellee, vs. Herman L. Bernette Et Al., Appellants
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** March 24, 1970
- **Citations:** 45 Ill. 2d 227; 258 N.E.2d 793; 1970 Ill. LEXIS 568
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Schaefer
- **Judges:** William J. Clark
- **Cited by:** 22 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Reversed on other grounds by Atkinson v. North Carolina, 403 U.S. 948 (1971).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9884742

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Schaefer, dissenting:
In my opinion, the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in Boulden v. Holman (1969), 394 U.S. 478 , 22 L. Ed. 2d 433 , 89 S. Ct. 1138 , and Maxwell v. Bishop (1970), 398 U.S. 262 , 26 L. Ed. 2d 221 , 90 S. Ct. 1578 , require the conclusion that the jury which imposed the death sentences in this case was not selected in accordance with the standards laid down in Witherspoon v. Illinois (1968), 391 U.S. 510 , 20 L. Ed. 2d 776 , 88 S. Ct. 1770 , and those sentences cannot constitutionally stand.

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