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Gilmore Vs. Taylor

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 02, 1993

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  12. U.S. 333 (1993) October Term, 1992 Syllabus Gilmore V. Taylor
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  13. the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. While his case was pending, the Court of Appeals, relying on Cupp v. Naughten
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  14. was guilty of murder without even considering whether he was entitled to a voluntary-manslaughter conviction. Falconer v. Lane
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  15. within the meaning of Teague v. Lane
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  16. basis for federal habeas relief. The District Court agreed, but the Court of Appeals reversed, concluding that Boyde v. California
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  17. U. S. 370 , and Connecticut v. Johnson
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  18. element of the offense charged, but may place on defendants the burden of proving affirmative defenses, see Martin v. Ohio
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  19. Patterson v. New
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  20. noncapital cases, instructions containing state-law errors may not form the basis for federal habeas relief, Estelle v. McGuire
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  21. no counterpart to the Eighth Amendment's doctrine of constitutionally relevant evidence in capital cases. Connecticut v. Johnson
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  22. supra, and Sandstrom v. Montana
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  23. of defense witnesses, and since Taylor's expansive reading of these cases would nullify the rule reaffirmed in Estelle v. McGuire
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  24. Clause. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted relief on the basis of its recent decision in Falconer v. Lane
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  25. Illinois Supreme Court invalidated the Illinois pattern jury instructions on murder and voluntary manslaughter. People v. Reddick
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  26. Reddick did not involve constitutional error, the only type of error that would support the grant of relief. People v. Taylor
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  27. trial violated due process. Eleven days later, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held as much in Falconer v. Lane
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  28. Id., at 1137. In reaching this conclusion, the Court of Appeals placed principal reliance on Cupp v. Naughten
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  29. F. 2d, at 452, it concluded that Boyde v. California
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  30. U. S. 370 (1990), and Connecticut v. Johnson
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  31. U. S. 407 , 412 (1990) (quoting Penry v. Lynaugh
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  32. that the instructions affirmatively misstated applicable state law. (The Court of Appeals in no way relied upon People v. Reddick
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  33. supra, which the Illinois Supreme Court had subsequently held was subject to prospective application only. People v. Flowers
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  34. instead. 341 In concluding that this defect violated due process, the Falconer court relied on Cupp v. Naughten
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  35. of the offense charged, but that they may place on defendants the burden of proving affirmative defenses. See Martin v. Ohio
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  36. in proving every element of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt, is one wholly of state law. Cf. Engle v. Isaac
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  37. offered two additional cases which it believed did dictate the result in Falconer. The first is Boyde v. California
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  38. in the law favoring criminal defendants, and therefore may be considered in our Teague analysis. See Lockhart v. Fretwell
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  39. Amendment requires a greater degree of accuracy and factfinding than would be true in a noncapital case. See Herrera v. Collins
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  40. have held that instructions that contain errors of state law may not form the basis for federal habeas relief. Estelle v. McGuire
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  41. in capital cases. The Court of Appeals also relied on the plurality opinion in Connecticut v. Johnson
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  42. U. S. 73 (1983). That case dealt with the question whether an instruction that violates due process under Sandstrom v. Montana
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  43. to an affirmative defense, with respect to which Winship's due process guarantee does not apply. See Martin v. Ohio
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  44. U. S. 683 , 690 (1986) (quoting California v. Trombetta
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  45. But the cases in which we have invoked this principle dealt with the exclusion of evidence, see, e. g., Crane v. Kentucky
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  46. U. S. 284 (1973), or the testimony of defense witnesses, see, e. g., Webb v. Texas
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  47. Washington v. Texas
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  48. due process.2 But such an expansive reading of our cases would make a nullity of the rule reaffirmed in Estelle v. McGuire
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  49. Syllabus Gilmore V. Taylor
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  50. Falconer v. Lane
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