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Murray Vs. Giarratano

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 23, 1989

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  4. Gideon Vs. Wainwright US Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1963
  5. Douglas Vs. California US Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1963
  6. Ross Vs. Moffitt US Supreme Court · Jun 17, 1974
  7. Pennsylvania Vs. Finley US Supreme Court · May 18, 1987
  8. United States Vs. Maccollom US Supreme Court · Jun 10, 1976
  9. Barefoot Vs. Estelle US Supreme Court · Jul 06, 1983
  10. Procunier Vs. Martinez US Supreme Court · Apr 29, 1974
  11. U.S. 1 (1989) U.S. Supreme Court Murray v. Giarratano
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  12. U.S. 1 (1989) Murray v. Giarratano
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  13. The District Court concluded that respondents should receive greater assistance than that outlined in Bounds v. Smith
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  14. upon request, to indigent death row inmates wishing to pursue habeas corpus in state court, but, in light of Ross v. Moffitt
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  15. as findings of fact which were not clearly erroneous. It reasoned that the case was not controlled by Pennsylvania v. Finley
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  16. Pp. 492 U. S. 7 -13. (a) This Court's decisions require the conclusion that the rule of Pennsylvania v. Finley
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  17. should apply no differently in capital cases than in noncapital cases. See, e.g., Smith v. Murray
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  18. of state habeas corpus relief. We think this holding is inconsistent with our decision two Terms ago in Pennsylvania v. Finley
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  19. U. S. 551 (1987), and rests on a misreading of our decision in Bounds v. Smith
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  20. wishing to pursue habeas corpus in state court. Id. at 517. It decided, however, that the decision in Ross v. Moffitt
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  21. the the District Court's remedial order. The en banc court did not believe the case to be controlled by Pennsylvania v. Page
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  22. Finley was not a meaningful access case, nor did it address the rule enunciated in Bounds v. Smith
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  23. Constitution assure the right of an indigent defendant to counsel at the trial stage of a criminal proceeding, Gideon v. Wainwright
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  24. as a matter of right to counsel for an initial appeal from the judgment and sentence of the trial court. Douglas v. California
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  25. U. S. 12 (1956). But we held in Ross v. Moffitt
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  26. U.S. at 417 U. S. 610 -611. We held in Finley that the logic of Ross v. Moffitt
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  27. review. It is not part of the criminal proceeding itself, and it is in fact considered to be civil in nature. See Fay v. Noia
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  28. U. S. 423 -424 (1963). . . . States have no obligation to provide this avenue of relief, cf. United States v. MacCollom
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  29. on the procedures used to convict an accused of a capital offense and sentence him to death. See, e.g., Beck v. Alabama
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  30. where the court and jury hear testimony, receive evidence, and decide the questions of guilt and punishment. In Pulley v. Harris
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  31. Eighth Amendment required appellate courts to perform proportionality review of death sentences. And in Satterwhite v. Texas
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  32. U. S. 256 (1988), we applied the traditional appellate standard of harmless error review set out in Chapman v. California
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  33. fact that a death sentence has been imposed requires a different standard of review on federal habeas corpus. In Smith v. Murray
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  34. Id. at 477 U. S. 538 -539. And, in Barefoot v. Estelle
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  35. Finally, in Ford v. Wainwright
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  36. executive procedures sufficient). We think that these cases require the conclusion that the rule of Pennsylvania v. Finley
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  37. as a matter of policy, the correctness of the dissent's view is by no means self-evident. If, as we said in Barefoot v. Estelle
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  38. on what it perceived as a tension between the rule in Finley and the implication of our decisions in Bounds v. Smith
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  39. involved in Bounds v. Smith
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  40. supra, to partially overrule Pennsylvania v. Finley
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  41. to what the Constitution requires with respect to a particular stage of a criminal proceeding in general. See Powell v. Alabama
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  42. post at 492 U. S. 17 , and n. 2, it was the Court's dissatisfaction with the case-by-case approach of Betts v. Brady
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  43. under this statute or otherwise prior to filing and unless the petition presents a nonfrivolous claim. See Darnell v. Peyton
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  44. differently from other postconviction cases -- as a basis for affirmance in addition to their reliance on Bounds v. Smith
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  45. The prisoner's right of access has been described as a consequence of the right to due process of law, see Procunier v. Martinez
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  46. U. S. 396 , 416 U. S. 419 (1974), and as an aspect of equal protection, see Pennsylvania v. Finley
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  47. valid criminal judgment. Nothing in the Constitution requires the States to provide such proceedings, see Pennsylvania v. Finley
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  48. not view it as inconsistent with the principles expressed above. As JUSTICE KENNEDY observes, our decision in Bounds v. Smith
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  49. of meaningful access can be satisfied in various ways, however. This was made explicit in our decision in Bounds v. Smith
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  50. U. S. 551 , 481 U. S. 556 (1987) (quoting Ross v. Moffitt
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