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Coker Vs. Georgia
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- US Supreme Court
- Jun 29, 1977
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U.S. 584 (1977) U.S. Supreme Court Coker v. GeorgiaSearch
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U.S. 584 (1977) Coker v. GeorgiaSearch
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and which must be observed by the States as well as the Federal Government. Robinson v. CaliforniaSearch
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of insanity. A sentencing hearing was then conducted in accordance with the procedures dealt with at length in Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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Both aggravating circumstances on which the court instructed were found to be present by the jury. II Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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U. S. 238 (1972), and the Court's decisions last Term in Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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Woodson v. NorthSearch
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and Roberts v. LouisianaSearch
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sentence from the infirmities which led the Court to invalidate the prior Georgia capital punishment statute in Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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Page 433 U. S. 592 however, the Court firmly embraced the holdings and dicta from prior cases, Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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Robinson v. CaliforniaSearch
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and Weems v. UnitedSearch
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By 1971, just prior to the decision in Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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Page 433 U. S. 594 States immediately reinstituted the death penalty for at least limited kinds of crime. Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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in a large majority of the States, heavily influenced the Court to sustain the death penalty for murder in Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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The Tennessee statute has since been invalidated because the death sentence was mandatory. Collins v. StateSearch
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In Trop v. DullesSearch
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In Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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sentence imposed under the Georgia rape statute. MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL, concurring in the judgment. In Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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In Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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the circumstances -- is a disproportionate penalty for the crime of rape. The Georgia statute, sustained in Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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punishment may be imposed on those sentenced in accordance with the procedures identified in Gregg and Woodson v. NorthSearch
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upon the victim. I dissent because I am not persuaded that such a bright line is appropriate. As noted in Snider v. PeytonSearch
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See Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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and manner in which the offense was committed, and the consequences suffered by the victim. See also Ralph v. WardenSearch
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defining, with appropriate specificity, the elements of the offense of aggravated rape would not be easy, see Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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prevail, and -- as with most of the writing in Furman -- it now must be read in light of Gregg and Woodson v. NorthSearch
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into account in devising punitive measures which will prevent inflicting further harm upon innocent victims. See Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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terms sweeping beyond the facts of the case presented, are magnified in the context of the Eighth Amendment. In Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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and North Carolina -- have enacted death penalty statutes for adult rape since this Court's 1972 decision in Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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supra at 408 U. S. 410 (BLACKMUN, J., dissenting). Cf. Rudolph v. AlabamaSearch
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five years, but these were invalidated for reasons unrelated to rape under the Court's decisions last Term. Woodson v. NorthSearch
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experiment with laws, both criminal and civil, in the effort to achieve socially desirable results. See, e.g., Whalen v. RoeSearch
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Johnson v. LouisianaSearch
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California v. GreenSearch
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U.S. Supreme Court Coker v. GeorgiaSearch
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the Federal Government. Robinson v. CaliforniaSearch
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II Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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Collins v. StateSearch
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the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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Gregg and Woodson v. NorthSearch
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Snider v. PeytonSearch
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Ralph v. WardenSearch
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