Cannon v. Texas
Cannon v. Texas Nethery v. Texas Perez v. Illinois
Opinion of the Court
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Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;
Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and
Sup. Ct. Ill. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-5687, 691 S. W. 2d 664 ; No. 85-5825, 692 S. W. 2d 686 ; No. 85-5946, 108 Ill. 2d 70 , 483 N. E. 2d 250 .
Dissent
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Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,
dissenting.
Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentehces in these cases.
How later courts describe this case
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(holding that comment was invited when defense counsel alluded to his client’s silence and then “referred to appellant’s knowledge ... that appellant knew he was facing two police officers”)
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(State’s reference to motive is not reversible error if invited by defense counsel’s argument)
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(defendant's claimed invocation of the right to counsel not made during any custodial interrogation)
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(generally improper to consider evidence which points to defendant's guilt of some other offense)
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