Whitlow v. Hodges

Whitlow v. Hodges, Director, Division of Driver Licensing, Department of Public Safety of Kentucky

Whitlow v. Hodges, 429 U.S. 1029 (1976)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: December 13, 1976
Docket: No. 76-552
Judges: Brennan, Certiorari
Citations: 429 U.S. 102997 S. Ct. 65450 L. Ed. 2d 6321976 U.S. LEXIS 3966

Cited by 193 34 descriptions by later courts

Opinion of the Court

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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.

Mr. Justice. Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall would grant certiorari.

How later courts describe this case

Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 34 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.

(holding that death row petitioner may competently waive further review of his conviction and sentence)

Pernell Ford v. Haley, 195 F.3d 603 (11th Cir. 1999)
(finding that Gary Gilmore had made a knowing and intelligent waiver of any federal rights he might have asserted after a trial court had convicted him)

Norris v. Wainwright, 588 F.2d 130 (5th Cir. 1979)
(recognizing, for purposes of stay, next-friend standing of mother on behalf of prisoner)

Coal. of Clergy, Lawyers, & Professors v. Bush, 310 F.3d 1153 (9th Cir. 2002)
(indicating that a mother had no standing to contest her son’s execution)

In re African-Am. Slave Descendants Litig., 304 F. Supp. 2d 1027 (N.D. Ill. 2004)
(taking of blood and urine samples together implicates Fourth Amendment concerns)

United States v. Williams, 787 F.2d 1182 (7th Cir. 1986)
(court declines jurisdiction over application for stay of execution filed by Gary Gilmore's mother over his objection)

State v. Brewer, 826 P.2d 783 (Ariz. 1992)
(convicted murderer’s mother could not seek stay of execution where murderer himself knowingly and intelligently waived his right to appeal)

Amato v. Wilentz, 952 F.2d 742 (3d Cir. 1991)
(stay of execution terminated because record evidence established "that the State's determinations of his competence knowingly and intelligently to waive any and all such rights [to appeal] were firmly grounded")

Anderson v. State, 574 So. 2d 87 (Fla. 1991)

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Smith ex rel. Missouri Public Defender Commission v. Armontrout812 F.2d 1050 (8th Cir. 1987)

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