392 U.S. 647
88 S.Ct. 2277
20 L.Ed.2d 1344
Jack LOPINSONv.PENNSYLVANIA.
No. 1133, October Term, 1967.

John J. COYLE
v.
PENNSYLVANIA.
No. 1095, Misc., October Term, 1967.
On Petitions for Writs of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Robert Leroy PRUETT
v.
OHIO.
No. 1700, Misc., October Term, 1967.
On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Lester J. Schaffer, for petitioner Jack Lopinson.
Howard M. Nazor and Gordon L. Nazor for petitioner Robert Leroy Pruett.
Michael J. Rotko and Arlen Specter, for respondent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in No. 1133.
Michael J. Rotko, William H. Wolf, Jr., and Arlen Specter, for respondent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in No. 1095, Misc.
Joseph E. Mahoney, for respondent State of Ohio.
June 17, 1968.
PER CURIAM.


1
The motions for leave to proceed in forma pauperis in No. 1095, Misc., and No. 1700, Misc., are granted and the petitions for writs of certiorari in all three cases are granted. Without reaching the petitioners' other claims, the judgments are vacated and the cases remanded for reconsideration in the light of Witherspoon v. State of Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776.


2
Mr. Justice HARLAN dissents for the reasons stated in Mr. Justice Black's dissenting opinion in Witherspoon v. State of Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 532, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 1782, 20 L.Ed.2d 776.


3
Mr. Justice WHITE dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Witherspoon v. State of Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 540, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 1786, 20 L.Ed.2d 776.


4
Mr. Justice BLACK, dissenting.


5
In all three of these cases the Court remands to the state courts on one single constitutional claim of petitioners without reaching other constitutional claims raised by them. The result is that after the state courts rule on the single remand issue this Court will undoubtedly be called on to pass on the other issues which the Court refuses to decide. At the very least this means postponement of a final decision in these cases a year or two years or three years, unless, that is, this Court should, on the second review, choose once more to decide the cases piecemeal. Piecemeal dispositions of criminal cases inevitably cause delays and hamper enforcement of the criminal laws and there is a lot of truth in the old adage that delay is a defendant's best lawyer. See Witherspoon v. State of Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776, where a murder sentence was reversed nine years after the murder. It is true that under Fay v. Noia, 372 U.S. 391, 83 S.Ct. 822, 9 L.Ed.2d 837, a certain amount of delay is inevitable in criminal cases, but that is not true in these cases where the issues are squarely presented to us here and now.

