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Murray Vs. Giarratano
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- US Supreme Court
- Jun 23, 1989
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U.S. 1 (1989) U.S. Supreme Court Murray v. GiarratanoSearch
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U.S. 1 (1989) Murray v. GiarratanoSearch
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The District Court concluded that respondents should receive greater assistance than that outlined in Bounds v. SmithSearch
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upon request, to indigent death row inmates wishing to pursue habeas corpus in state court, but, in light of Ross v. MoffittSearch
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as findings of fact which were not clearly erroneous. It reasoned that the case was not controlled by Pennsylvania v. FinleySearch
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Pp. 492 U. S. 7 -13. (a) This Court's decisions require the conclusion that the rule of Pennsylvania v. FinleySearch
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should apply no differently in capital cases than in noncapital cases. See, e.g., Smith v. MurraySearch
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of state habeas corpus relief. We think this holding is inconsistent with our decision two Terms ago in Pennsylvania v. FinleySearch
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U. S. 551 (1987), and rests on a misreading of our decision in Bounds v. SmithSearch
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wishing to pursue habeas corpus in state court. Id. at 517. It decided, however, that the decision in Ross v. MoffittSearch
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the the District Court's remedial order. The en banc court did not believe the case to be controlled by Pennsylvania v. PageSearch
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Finley was not a meaningful access case, nor did it address the rule enunciated in Bounds v. SmithSearch
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Constitution assure the right of an indigent defendant to counsel at the trial stage of a criminal proceeding, Gideon v. WainwrightSearch
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as a matter of right to counsel for an initial appeal from the judgment and sentence of the trial court. Douglas v. CaliforniaSearch
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U. S. 12 (1956). But we held in Ross v. MoffittSearch
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U.S. at 417 U. S. 610 -611. We held in Finley that the logic of Ross v. MoffittSearch
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review. It is not part of the criminal proceeding itself, and it is in fact considered to be civil in nature. See Fay v. NoiaSearch
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U. S. 423 -424 (1963). . . . States have no obligation to provide this avenue of relief, cf. United States v. MacCollomSearch
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on the procedures used to convict an accused of a capital offense and sentence him to death. See, e.g., Beck v. AlabamaSearch
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where the court and jury hear testimony, receive evidence, and decide the questions of guilt and punishment. In Pulley v. HarrisSearch
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Eighth Amendment required appellate courts to perform proportionality review of death sentences. And in Satterwhite v. TexasSearch
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U. S. 256 (1988), we applied the traditional appellate standard of harmless error review set out in Chapman v. CaliforniaSearch
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fact that a death sentence has been imposed requires a different standard of review on federal habeas corpus. In Smith v. MurraySearch
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Id. at 477 U. S. 538 -539. And, in Barefoot v. EstelleSearch
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Finally, in Ford v. WainwrightSearch
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executive procedures sufficient). We think that these cases require the conclusion that the rule of Pennsylvania v. FinleySearch
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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. EstelleSearch
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on what it perceived as a tension between the rule in Finley and the implication of our decisions in Bounds v. SmithSearch
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involved in Bounds v. SmithSearch
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supra, to partially overrule Pennsylvania v. FinleySearch
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to what the Constitution requires with respect to a particular stage of a criminal proceeding in general. See Powell v. AlabamaSearch
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post at 492 U. S. 17 , and n. 2, it was the Court's dissatisfaction with the case-by-case approach of Betts v. BradySearch
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under this statute or otherwise prior to filing and unless the petition presents a nonfrivolous claim. See Darnell v. PeytonSearch
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differently from other postconviction cases -- as a basis for affirmance in addition to their reliance on Bounds v. SmithSearch
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The prisoner's right of access has been described as a consequence of the right to due process of law, see Procunier v. MartinezSearch
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U. S. 396 , 416 U. S. 419 (1974), and as an aspect of equal protection, see Pennsylvania v. FinleySearch
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valid criminal judgment. Nothing in the Constitution requires the States to provide such proceedings, see Pennsylvania v. FinleySearch
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not view it as inconsistent with the principles expressed above. As JUSTICE KENNEDY observes, our decision in Bounds v. SmithSearch
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of meaningful access can be satisfied in various ways, however. This was made explicit in our decision in Bounds v. SmithSearch
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U. S. 551 , 481 U. S. 556 (1987) (quoting Ross v. MoffittSearch
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