 Wainwright v. Witt

Wainwright vs. Witt, 470 U.S. 1039 (1985), was a U.S. Supreme Court case concerning a criminal defendant, Johnny Paul Witt, who argued that his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was sentenced to death for first degree murder by the state of Florida.He argued that the trial court had unconstitutionally hand-picked a jury during the "voir dire" process.