# Petition for Writ of Certiorari — Hansen v. United States

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## Record

- **Collection:** Supreme Court brief
- **Document type:** Petition for Writ of Certiorari
- **Published:** January 1, 1968
- **Citation:** 393 U.S. 833

## Text

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SUPREME COURT. 0.2 — | | JUN 8 1969

JOHN F. DAVIS, CLERK
IN THE ms |

Supreme Court of the United States

OcTOBER TeRM, 1968 | P

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forward which have been recently made in obtaining
and protecting the rights of criminal defendants to a
trial by juries selected in such a manner as to reason-
ably assure a representative cross section of the com-
munity. To prevent this Certiorari should be granted.

3. The question of whether or not a combination of
all of the facts involved in a criminal proceeding can
be viewed in their entirety to determine whether or
not a criminal defendant has had a fair trial is worthy
of consideration by this Court. The question of whether
or not the onduct of the Jury Commissioners in select-_
ing jurors for the Central Division of the District Court
' for the District of South Dakota, the failure of the gov-
ernment to comply with the provisions of the discovery
order and of Rule 16, coupled with other error con-
tained in the record should be considered in its entirety
to determine whether such events had a substantial
_ effect on the result of petitioner’s trial goes to the very
heart of a determination of what constitutes harmless
error and what constitutes prejudicial- error. See
Kotteakos v. Umited States, 328 U.S. 750.

_ Where a series of events such as are shown in the

record in this matter exist a criminal defendant should
have the right to have the record looked at in its en-
tirety to determine whether or not he received a fair
trial.

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CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, petitioner respectfully

submits that the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
should be granted.

JosEPH H. Bortum, IIT
Hengel Building
Pierre, South Dakota 57501
Pup J. LESSER x
Lesser &. Lesser

1030 15th St., N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20005

Counsel for Petitioner

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