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Mullaney Vs. Wilbur

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 09, 1975

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  8. U.S. 684 (1975) U.S. Supreme Court Mullaney v. Wilbur
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  9. U.S. 684 (1975) Mullaney v. Wilbur
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  10. are not distinct crimes but, rather, different degrees of the single generic offense of felonious homicide. State v. Wilbur
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  11. provocation. Respondent next successfully petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in Federal District Court. Wilbur v. Robbins
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  12. beyond a reasonable doubt. Following this decision, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court decided the case of State v. Lafferty
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  13. Winters v. New
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  14. In view of this presumption, the early English authorities, relying on the case of The King v. Oneby
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  15. that, absent proof to the contrary, a homicide was presumed not to have occurred in the heat of passion. See State v. Rollins
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  16. In a landmark case, Commonwealth v. York
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  17. this Court explicitly considered and unanimously rejected the general approach articulated in York. Davis v. United
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  18. State v. Lafferty
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  19. act either be Page 421 U. S. 699 intentional or the result of criminally reckless conduct. See State v. Lafferty
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  20. St. Louis S.W. R. Co. v. Arkansas
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  21. likelihood of an erroneous murder conviction. Such a result directly contravenes the principle articulated in Speiser v. Randall
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  22. Winship, 397 U.S. at 397 U. S. 370 -372 (Harlan, J., concurring). C It has been suggested, State v. Wilbur
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  23. State v. Rollins
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  24. of the defendant, this does not, as the Court has long recognized, justify shifting the burden to him. See Tot v. United
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  25. Leary v. United
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  26. Maine itself requires the prosecution to prove the absence of self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. See State v. Millett
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  27. express malice appears to have been wholly unnecessary, as the Maine Supreme Judicial Court subsequently held. State v. Lafferty
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  28. State v. Wilbur
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  29. retroactively. We subsequently decided, however, that Winship should be given complete retroactive effect. Ivan v. City
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  30. Respondent relies on Bouie v. City
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  31. retroactive application of the new interpretation was itself a denial of due process. See also Brinkerhoff-Faris Co. v. Hill
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  32. in Maine, the burden of proving heat of passion has rested on the defendant for more than a century. See, e.g., State v. Knight
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  33. since malice would be implied from the unlawful homicide. In considering these instructions as a whole, see Cupp v. Naughten
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  34. U. S. 120 , 326 U. S. 129 (1945). See Ward v. Love
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  35. Terre Haute & I. R. Co. v. Indiana
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  36. it to be novel, does not frustrate consideration of the due process issue, as the Maine court itself recognized, State v. Wilbur
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  37. The Remains of Federalism After Wilbur v. Mullaney
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  38. Much of this history was set out in the Court's opinion in McGautha v. California
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  39. State v. Knight
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  40. production burden or the persuasion burden on the issue of heat of passion. See, e.g., cases discussed in People v. Morrin
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  41. Commonwealth v. Hawkins
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  42. that he acted in the heat of passion. See, e.g., State v. Willis
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  43. In Leland v. Oregon
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  44. State v. Cuevas
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  45. requires the prosecution to negate heat of passion on sudden provocation by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Mancini v. Director
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  46. Woolmington v. Director
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  47. Relying on Williams v. New
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  48. York, 337 U. S. 241 (1949), and McGautha v. California
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  49. discretion of the sentencing body, and therefore not subject to rigorous due process demands. But cf. United States v. Tucker
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  50. the defendant to disprove the elements of aggravation -- e.g., intent to kill or intent to rob. But see State v. Ferris
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