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Caspari Vs. Bohlen

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Dec 06, 1993

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  10. October Term, 1993 Syllabus Caspari, Superintendent, Missouri Eastern Correctional Center, Et Al. V. Bohlen
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  11. s habeas corpus petition. However, in reversing, the Federal Court of Appeals extended the rationale of Bullington v. Missouri
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  12. law, and thus that granting habeas relief to respondent would not violate the nonretroactivity principle of Teague v. Lane
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  13. this Court must apply Teague analysis before considering the merits of respondent's claim. See Graham v. Collins
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  14. petition elapsed following exhaustion of the availability of direct appeal to the state courts. See Griffith v. Kentucky
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  15. to be dictated by precedent. At that time, the Court had not so applied the Clause, cf., e. g., United States v. DiFrancesco
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  16. Bullington, supra, and Arizona v. Rumsey
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  17. distinguished, and indeed several of the Court's decisions pointed in the opposite direction, see, e. g., Strickland v. Washington
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  18. issue. Because that conflict concerned a development in the law over which reasonable jurists could disagree, Sawyer v. Smith
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  19. Attorney General of Wyoming. 386 JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. In Bullington v. Missouri
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  20. three consecutive terms of 15 years in prison. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed respondent's convictions. State v. Bohlen
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  21. Id., at 123. Following Missouri practice, see State v. Holt
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  22. State v. Bohlen
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  23. S. W. 2d 577, 578 (1985), citing State v. Lee
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  24. of Appeals subsequently affirmed the trial court's denial of respondent's motion for postconviction relief. Bohlen v. State
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  25. In Yee v. Escondido
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  26. fairly included in the question presented. Id., at 32. See also American Nat. Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago v. Haroco
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  27. to a state prisoner based on a rule announced after his conviction and sentence became final. See, e. g., Stringer v. Black
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  28. Thus, a federal court may, but need not, decline to apply Teague if the State does not argue it. See Schiro v. Farley
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  29. of constitutional law, the court must apply Teague before considering the merits of the claim. See Graham v. Collins
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  30. State in this case is a necessary predicate to the resolution of the question presented in the petition. Cf. Cuyler v. Sullivan
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  31. decide whether that rule falls within one of the two narrow exceptions to the nonretroactivity principle. See Gilmore v. Taylor
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  32. a petition for a writ of certiorari has elapsed or a timely filed petition has been finally denied. See Griffith v. Kentucky
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  33. that there is no double jeopardy bar to the use of prior convictions in sentencing a persistent offender. Spencer v. Texas
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  34. U. S. 554 , 560 (1967). Cf. Moore v. Missouri
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  35. of that status, so that he cannot be again subjected to a persistent-offender determination. See United States v. Wilson
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  36. see also id., at 135, citing Chaffin v. Stynchcombe
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  37. Bozza v. United
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  38. and Stroud v. United
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  39. the Double Jeopardy Clause to sentencing, but contends that a different result is compelled in this case by Bullington v. Missouri
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  40. U. S. 430 (1981), and Arizona v. Rumsey
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  41. U. S., at 441-442, n. 15 (internal quotation marks omitted). We recognized as much in Pennsylvania v. Goldhammer
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  42. emphasis added). 393 In Strickland v. Washington
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  43. quoting Barefoot v. Estelle
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  44. U. S. 880 , 913-914 (1983) (Marshall, J., dissenting)). See also Spaziano v. Florida
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  45. of the Double Jeopardy Clause to a noncapital sentencing proceeding to be dictated by our precedents. Cf. Stringer v. Black
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  46. Clause did not bar the introduction of evidence of prior convictions at resentencing in noncapital cases, Linam v. Griffin
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  47. Durham v. State
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  48. People v. Sailor
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  49. while another Federal Court of Appeals and two other state courts of last resort had held to the contrary, Briggs v. Procunier
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  50. State v. Hennings
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