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Cabana Vs. Bullock

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 22, 1986

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  1. Presnell Vs. Georgia US Supreme Court · Nov 06, 1978
  2. Gregg Vs. Georgia US Supreme Court · Jul 02, 1976
  3. Jackson Vs. Denno US Supreme Court · Jun 22, 1964
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  4. Wainwright Vs. Witt US Supreme Court · Jan 21, 1985
  5. Lockett Vs. Ohio US Supreme Court · Jul 03, 1978
  6. Sandstrom Vs. Montana US Supreme Court · Jun 18, 1979
  7. Solem Vs. Helm US Supreme Court · Jun 28, 1983
  8. U.S. 376 (1986) U.S. Supreme Court Cabana v. Bullock
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  9. U.S. 376 (1986) Cabana v. Bullock
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  10. Appeals reversed on the ground that respondent's death sentence was invalid under the intervening decision in Enmund v. Florida
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  11. J., joined, post, p. 474 U. S. 407 . JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In Enmund v. Florida
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  12. Price v. State
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  13. his level of involvement in the crime as to violate the Eighth Amendment. The court rejected both contentions. Bullock v. State
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  14. our decision in Enmund, which was handed down during the pendency of the District Court proceedings. Bullock v. Lucas
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  15. can be satisfied only by findings made at the guilt-innocence or sentencing phase of a trial ( see also Redix v. Thigpen
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  16. F.2d 705 (CA5 1984)) conflicts with the interpretation of Enmund adopted by the Eleventh Circuit, see Ross v. Kemp
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  17. A defendant charged with a serious crime has the right to have a jury determine his guilt or innocence, Duncan v. Louisiana
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  18. provided the jury do not require it to find each element of the crime under the proper standard of proof, Sandstrom v. Montana
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  19. of a defendant resulting from the court's failure to instruct it to find an element of the crime. See Connecticut v. Johnson
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  20. Beck v. Alabama
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  21. Reddix v. Thigpen
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  22. is appropriate in any given case is not one that we have ever required to be made by a jury. Indeed, in Spaziano v. Florida
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  23. has long been viewed as one that a trial judge or an appellate court is fully competent to make. See, e.g., Solem v. Helm
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  24. Weems v. United
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  25. exercise of sentencing discretion and from the type of Eighth Amendment proportionality inquiry undertaken in Solem v. Helm
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  26. Pulley v. Harris
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  27. d), see Sumner v. Mata
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  28. it requires that he himself have actually killed, attempted to kill, or intended that lethal force be used. v. There
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  29. of state courts to carry out their role as the primary protectors of the rights of criminal defendants, see Younger v. Harris
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  30. carry out in the first instance the factual inquiry called for by Enmund. To paraphrase our opinion in Jackson v. Denno
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  31. first, however, we cannot conclude that the jury followed the second instruction. As was the case last Term in Francis v. Franklin
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  32. hence, such cases as Cole v. Arkansas
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  33. JUSTICE BLACKMUN's reliance on Hicks v. Oklahoma
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  34. U. S. 343 (1980), and Presnell v. Georgia
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  35. the jury had not been instructed. We set aside both the conviction and the death sentence on the authority of Cole v. Arkansas
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  36. determining guilt or innocence. This assumption, of course, is no longer tenable in light of our holding in Spaziano v. Florida
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  37. determinations that could not be accurately made by an appellate court on the basis of a paper record, cf. Anderson v. Bessemer
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  38. even if credibility issues and other ambiguities in the record are resolved in his or her favor. See, e.g., Ross v. Kemp
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  39. the court would therefore simply deny the writ without requiring further proceedings in the state courts. Cf. Ross v. Kemp
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  40. Bullock v. State
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  41. is, in all circumstances, cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia
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  42. JUSTICE BLACKMUN, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN and JUSTICE MARSHALL join, dissenting. Last Term, in Caldwell v. Mississippi
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  43. holds that the Mississippi Supreme Court may be competent to make, on a paper record, the findings required by Enmund v. Florida
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  44. constitutional safeguards on the capital sentencing process that the Court has acknowledged in the decade since Gregg v. Georgia
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  45. The Mississippi Supreme Court explicitly based its account of the crime on Bullock's written confession, see Bullock v. State
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  46. we insist on 'individualized consideration as a constitutional requirement in imposing the death sentence,' Lockett v. Ohio
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  47. which means that we must focus on 'relevant facets of the character and record of the individual offender.' Woodson v. North
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  48. Id. at 798 (emphasis in original). See also Eddings v. Oklahoma
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  49. penalty. Cf. ante at 474 U. S. 390 . Like the statutory aggravating circumstances discussed in Zant v. Stephens
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Cabana v. Bullock
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