Williams v. Florida

Williams v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 4, 1970 Decided June 22, 1970
Full case name	Williams v. State of Florida
Citations	399 U.S. 78 (more) 90 S. Ct. 1893; 26 L. Ed. 2d 446; 1970 U.S. LEXIS 98
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Williams v. State, 224 So. 2d 406 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969); cert. granted, 396 U.S. 955 (1969).
Holding
(1) The Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination does not excuse a criminal defendant from giving the prosecution notice of the identities of his alibi witnesses. (2) The Sixth Amendment does not require that a jury must consist of 12 jurors.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun
Case opinions
Majority	White, joined by Burger, Brennan; Harlan, Stewart, Marshall (Part I); Black, Douglas (Part II)
Concurrence	Burger
Concur/dissent	Black, joined by Douglas
Concur/dissent	Harlan
Concur/dissent	Stewart
Dissent	Marshall (in part)
Blackmun took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. V, VI, XIV

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Williams v. Florida

Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Fifth Amendment does not entitle a defendant in a criminal trial to refuse to provide details of his alibi witnesses to the prosecution, and that the Sixth Amendment does not require a jury to have 12 members.^[1]