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Dugger Vs. Adams

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Feb 28, 1989

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  1. Barclay Vs. Florida US Supreme Court · Jul 06, 1983
  2. Reed Vs. Ross US Supreme Court · Jun 27, 1984
  3. Amadeo Vs. Zant US Supreme Court · May 31, 1988
  4. Mullaney Vs. Wilbur US Supreme Court · Jun 09, 1975
  5. U.S. 401 (1989) U.S. Supreme Court Dugger v. Adams
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  6. U.S. 401 (1989) Dugger v. Adams
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  7. postconviction relief or in a later unsuccessful federal habeas corpus petition. Thereafter, it was held in Caldwell v. Mississippi
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  8. claim. In such a case, the subsequently available federal claim did not excuse the procedural default. Reed v. Ross
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  9. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case, we decide whether our decision in Caldwell v. Mississippi
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  10. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed respondent's conviction and sentence on direct appeal, Adams v. State
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  11. denial of respondent's first motion for postconviction relief under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. Adams v. State
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  12. instructions. The District Page 489 U. S. 405 Court denied his habeas petition on September 18, 1984, Adams v. Wainwright
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  13. F.2d 1356 (1985), and this Court denied certiorari, 474 U. S. 1073 (1986). On June 11, 1985, Caldwell v. Mississippi
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  14. Tedder v. State
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  15. s argument on the merits, however, because respondent had failed to raise the argument on direct appeal. Adams v. State
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  16. the claim was procedurally barred, and that, alternatively, respondent's Caldwell claim was meritless. Adams v. Wainwright
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  17. p. 9, Page 489 U. S. 406 App. to Pet. for Cert. A-43, A-56-A-60. The Eleventh Circuit reversed. Adams v. Wainwright
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  18. U.S. 933 (1988), and we now reverse. In Wainwright v. Sykes
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  19. state courts have found procedurally defaulted. We have reaffirmed this requirement on several occasions. See Murray v. Carrier
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  20. of cause and prejudice. Amadeo v. Zant
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  21. U. S. 214 , 486 U. S. 221 (1988) (quoting Sykes, supra, at 433 U. S. 87 ). See also Reed v. Ross
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  22. U. S. 1 , 468 U. S. 13 (1984). Reed v. Ross
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  23. plainly had the basis for an objection and an argument on appeal that the instructions violated state law. See Pait v. State
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  24. Blackwell v. State
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  25. state grounds is not good cause for his failure to follow Florida procedural rules. Page 489 U. S. 409 Reed v. Ross
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  26. an instruction that was plainly valid under the settled law of the State. Six years later, it was held, in Mullaney v. Wilbur
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  27. the trial judge would incline the jury toward leniency, rather than toward recommending a death sentence. See Dobbert v. Florida
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  28. the improper remarks by the trial judge at the time of his trial as a violation of due process. See Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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  29. Tenth Circuit also held that Caldwell was sufficiently novel to provide cause for a procedural default. Dutton v. Brown
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  30. cert. denied, 484 U.S. 836 (1987). Previously, however, the Fifth Circuit had held in Moore v. Blackburn
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  31. Both of these cases were cited in Caldwell v. Mississippi
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  32. Johnson v. Mississippi
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  33. applied its rule that claims not raised on direct appeal cannot be raised on postconviction review. See Bertolotti v. State
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  34. Clark v. State
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  35. Jones v. Dugger
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  36. Woods v. State
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  37. Cave v. State
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  38. Preston v. State
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  39. Doyle v. State
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  40. Ford v. State
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  41. Henderson v. Dugger
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  42. Tafero v. Dugger
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  43. Foster v. State
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  44. Phillips v. Dugger
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  45. Copeland v. Wainwright
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  46. Aldridge v. State
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  47. State v. Sireci
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  48. Adams v. State
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  49. Middleton v. State
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  50. convince us that the Florida Supreme Court fails to apply its procedural rule regularly and consistently. In Darden v. State
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