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Truesdale Vs. Aiken

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 23, 1987

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  1. Eddings Vs. Oklahoma US Supreme Court · Jan 19, 1982
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  2. Palko Vs. Connecticut US Supreme Court · Dec 06, 1937
  3. U.S. 527 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court Truesdale v. Aiken
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  4. U.S. 527 (1987) Truesdale v. Aiken
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  5. for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment of the Supreme Court of South Carolina is reversed. Lockett v. Ohio
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  6. Skipper v. South
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  7. Carolina, 476 U. S. 1 (1986). See also United States v. Johnson
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  8. certiorari and summarily reverses a decision of the South Carolina Supreme Court that had refused to apply Skipper v. South
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  9. law decisions retroactively to federal habeas corpus petitions is the analysis set forth by Justice Harlan in Mackey v. United
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  10. U. S. 681 -695 (1971) (opinion concurring in judgment in Mackey and dissenting from judgment in Williams v. United
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  11. States, 401 U. S. 646 (1971)). See Griffith v. Kentucky
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  12. Application of these principles to this case is not simple. Lockett v. Ohio
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  13. U. S. 586 (1978), and Eddings v. Oklahoma
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  14. s conviction became final. Accordingly, under the retroactivity principles adopted in our recent decision in Griffith v. Kentucky
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  15. at a capital sentencing proceeding, relevant evidence that tends to lessen the defendant's culpability. Lockett v. Ohio
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  16. id. at 401 U. S. 693 (quoting Palko v. Connecticut
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  17. The Court supports this conclusion by reference to the statement in United States v. Johnson
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  18. Carolina, 476 U. S. 1 , 476 U. S. 5 (1986) (quoting Jurek v. Texas
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  19. I am not the first to note the difficulty of making these determinations. See Desist v. United
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  20. Mackey v. United
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  21. opinion of Harlan, J., concurring in judgment in Mackey and dissenting from judgment in Williams v. United
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  22. U.S. Supreme Court Truesdale v. Aiken
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  23. Lockett v. Ohio
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  24. United States v. Johnson
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  25. Williams v. United
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  26. See Griffith v. Kentucky
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  27. and Eddings v. Oklahoma
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  28. Griffith v. Kentucky
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  29. Jurek v. Texas
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  30. See Desist v. United
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