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Ramdass Vs. Angelone

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 12, 2000

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  1. O'Dell Vs. Netherland US Supreme Court · Jun 19, 1997
  2. Teague Vs. Lane US Supreme Court · Feb 22, 1989
  3. U.S. 156 (2000) October Term, 1999 Syllabus Ramdass V. Angelone
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  4. from this Court, the Virginia Supreme Court again affirmed the sentence, declining to apply the holding of Simmons v. South
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  5. act under Virginia law, the facts in this case would have been materially indistinguishable from those in Simmons v. South
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  6. of a decision denying relief in federal habeas corpus, he seeks to set aside the death sentence in reliance on Simmons v. South
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  7. Ramdass v. Commonwealth
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  8. Ramdass' position had been raising the issue at trial, despite existing Virginia law to the contrary. E. g., Mickens v. Commonwealth
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  9. O'Dell v. Thompson
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  10. Mueller v. Commonwealth
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  11. Eaton v. Commonwealth
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  12. should have instructed the jury that he was ineligible for parole. While the petition was pending, we decided Simmons v. South
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  13. We granted Ramdass' petition for certiorari and remanded the case for reconsideration in light of Simmons. Ramdass v. Virginia
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  14. Simmons applied only if Ramdass was ineligible for parole when the jury was considering his sentence. Ramdass v. Commonwealth
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  15. of certiorari contending that the Virginia Supreme Court misapplied Simmons, and we denied certiorari. Ramdass v. Virginia
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  16. jury of parole ineligibility, either by a jury instruction or in arguments by counsel. In our later decision in O'Dell v. Netherland
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  17. U. S. 151 , 166 (1997), we held that Simmons created a new rule for purposes of Teague v. Lane
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  18. As explained in JUSTICE O'CONNOR'S opinion for the Court in Williams v. Taylor
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  19. While a South Carolina defendant might challenge a guilty plea, the grounds for doing so are limited, see Rivers v. Strickland
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  20. see also Whetsell v. South
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  21. if a jury concludes that even if the defendant might not be paroled, he may escape to murder again, see Garner v. Jones
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  22. some other change in the law might operate to invalidate a conviction once thought beyond review, see Bousley v. United
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  23. or he may be no less a risk to society in prison, see United States v. Battle
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  24. trial. Virginia law instead permitted unadjudicated prior bad acts to be introduced as evidence at trial. See Watkins v. Commonwealth
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  25. have been relied upon by courts with factfinding powers to exclude or minimize survey evidence. E. g., Amstar Corp. v. Domino's
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  26. Dreyfus Fund, Inc. v. Royal
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  27. General Motors Corp. v. Cadillac
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  28. Kingsford Products Co. v. Kingsfords
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  29. Conagra, Inc. v. Geo
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  30. Sterling Drug, Inc. v. Bayer
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  31. American Home Products Corp. v. Proctor
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  32. Gucci v. Gucci
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  33. Schering Corp. v. Schering
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  34. Us, Inc. v. Canarsie
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  35. The poll reported in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review should not be considered by this Court. See Stanford v. Kentucky
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  36. procedure in Virginia for trial courts to consider and grant motions to set aside jury verdicts. E. g., Floyd v. Commonwealth
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  37. Payne v. Commonwealth
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  38. Johnson v. Commonwealth
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  39. Walker v. Commonwealth
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  40. Gorham v. Commonwealth
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  41. Carter v. Commonwealth
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  42. Cullen v. Commonwealth
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  43. held that postverdict motions give a defendant a full and fair opportunity to raise claims of trial error, DiPaola v. Riddle
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  44. of postverdict relief renders a jury verdict uncertain and unreliable until judgment is entered. E. g., Dowell v. Commonwealth
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  45. see also Smith v. Commonwealth
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  46. Blair v. Commonwealth
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  47. to say that the trial court has no concern with the proceedings after the jury's verdict. Davis v. Commonwealth
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  48. uncertain the finality and reliability of even a judgment in the trial court. Our own jurisprudence under Teague v. Lane
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  49. does not consider a Virginia-state-court conviction final until the direct review process is completed. O'Dell v. Netherland
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  50. to obtain a Simmons instruction even where the defendant's future dangerousness is not at issue. Yarbrough v. Commonwealth
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