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Pulley Vs. Harris

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 23, 1984

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  1. Enmund Vs. Florida US Supreme Court · Jul 02, 1982
  2. Coker Vs. Georgia US Supreme Court · Jun 29, 1977
  3. Proffitt Vs. Florida US Supreme Court · Jul 02, 1976
  4. Jurek Vs. Texas US Supreme Court · Jul 02, 1976
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  5. Solem Vs. Helm US Supreme Court · Jun 28, 1983
  6. U.S. 37 (1984) U.S. Supreme Court Pulley v. Harris
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  7. U.S. 37 (1984) Pulley v. Harris
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  8. do not require comparative proportionality review by an appellate court in every capital case. The outcome in Gregg v. Georgia
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  9. U. S. 153 (upholding Georgia's statutory scheme which required comparative proportionality review), and Proffitt v. Florida
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  10. providing proportionality review are constitutional does not mean that such review is indispensable. Moreover, Jurek v. Texas
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  11. Rejecting the constitutional claims by citation to earlier cases, the California Supreme Court affirmed. People v. Harris
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  12. him with comparative proportionality review. The writ was denied without opinion, and we denied certiorari. Harris v. California
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  13. due process of law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, Harris' submission is not persuasive. He relies on People v. Frerson
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  14. Page 465 U. S. 42 25 Cal.3d 142, 599 P.2d 587 (1979), and People v. Jackson
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  15. and therefore cruel and unusual, when imposed for a particular crime or category of crime. See, e.g., Solem v. Helm
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  16. U. S. 584 (1977). The death penalty is not in all cases a disproportionate penalty in this sense. Gregg v. Georgia
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  17. the Court of Appeals was of the same view. We do not agree. III Harris' submission is rooted in Furman v. Georgia
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  18. Court examined several of the new state statutes. We upheld one of each of the three sorts mentioned above. See Gregg v. Georgia
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  19. in concluding that Gregg required proportionality review. There is even less basis for reliance on Proffitt v. Florida
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  20. and Proffitt did not establish a constitutional requirement of proportionality review is made clearer by Jurek v. Texas
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  21. Harris also relies on Zant v. Stephens
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  22. People v. Frierson
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  23. death sentence to life imprisonment because the evidence did not support the findings of special circumstances. People v. Thompson
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  24. U.S. at 465 U. S. 884 , quoting Lockett v. Ohio
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  25. one case beside this one in which the court affirmed a death sentence imposed under the 1977 or later statute. People v. Jackson
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  26. of the sort at issue here was conducted in that case. At oral argument, counsel for respondent pointed to People v. Dillon
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  27. U.S. at 428 U. S. 251 , quoting State v. Dixon
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  28. proportionality review. Indeed, that is how the Florida Supreme Court, for one, has interpreted it. E.g., McCaskill v. State
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  29. that at present the Florida Supreme Court undertakes to provide proportionality review in every case, see Brown v. Wainwright
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  30. become more enthusiastic, or at least more explicit, about proportionality review in recent years. See, e.g., Williams v. State
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  31. Adams v. State
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  32. Furman capital punishment statute. It was endorsed in the very first case decided under that statute, see State v. Dixon
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  33. supra, at 10, and frequently acknowledged and performed thereafter, see, e.g., Alvord v. State
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  34. Alford v. State
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  35. Lamadline v. State
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  36. Sullivan v. State
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  37. So.2d 609, 613 (1983) (citing State v. Dixon
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  38. that, in others, the court was not explicit about comparative review does not mean none was undertaken. See Messer v. State
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  39. penological function and hence fall within the reach of the decision announced by five Members the Court in Furman v. Georgia
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  40. Woodson v. North
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  41. and Zant v. Stephens
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  42. eliminating the systemic arbitrariness and capriciousness which infected death penalty schemes invalidated by Furman v. Georgia
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  43. among the three statutes in appraising the quality of the review that was mandated. Last Term, in Zant v. Stephens
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  44. Jones v. State
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  45. Henry v. State
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  46. Douglas v. State
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  47. Thompson v. State
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  48. So.2d 1, 5 (1976) (quotes language from State v. Dixon
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  49. U.S. Supreme Court Pulley v. Harris
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  50. Gregg v. Georgia
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