Wright v. Illinois
Wright v. Illinois Lesko v. Pennsylvania Floyd v. Alabama Cargill v. Georgia Morgan v. Illinois Olinger v. Illinois Montgomery v. Illinois Hill v. Nevada Szabo v. Illinois Cooper v. Florida Brooks v. Ohio Justus v. Bass, Superintendent, Mecklenburg Correctional Center Hill v. Arkansas Wright v. Alabama Cooper v. Tennessee Muhammad v. Florida Dufour v. Florida
Opinion of the Court
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Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-6783, 111 Ill. 2d 128 , 490 N. E. 2d 640 ; No. 85-7008, 509 Pa. 67 , 501 A. 2d 200 ; No. 85-7016, 486 So. 2d 1321 ; No. 85-7232, 255 Ga. 616 , 340 S. E. 2d 891 ; No. 86-5207, 112 Ill. 2d 111 , 492 N. E. 2d 1303 ; No. 86-5434, 112 Ill. 2d 324 , 493 N. E. 2d 579 ; No. 86-5599, 112 Ill. 2d 517 , 494 N. E. 2d 475 ; No. 86-5801, 102 Nev. 377 , 724 P. 2d 734 ; No. 86-5906, 113 Ill. 2d 83 , 497 N. E. 2d 995 ; No. 86-5958, 492 So. 2d 1059 ; No. 86-5994, 25 Ohio St. 3d 144 , 495 N. E. 2d 407 ; No. 86-6017, 289 Ark. 387 , 713 S. W. 2d 233 ; No. 86-6026, 494 So. 2d 745 ; No. 86-6033, 718 S. W. 2d 256 ; No. 86-6092, 494 So. 2d 969 ; No. 86-6194, 495 So. 2d 154 .
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 sentences in these cases.
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(holding that because defense counsel could not articulate a basis for a belief that police would give perjured testimony, the trial court in a capital case did not err in denying defendant’s motion to discover the personnel records of police officers who would testify)
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