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Tyler Vs. Cain

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 28, 2001

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  9. U.S. 656 (2001) October Term, 2000 Syllabus Tyler V. Cain
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  10. for postconviction relief and a federal habeas petition, all of which were denied. After this Court decided Cage v. Louisiana
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  11. Congress is permitted to use synonyms in a statute, see Wil liams v. Taylor
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  12. Cage did not make itself retroactive, and neither did Sullivan v. Louisiana
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  13. s reasoning makes it clear that retroactive application of Cage is warranted by the principles of Teague v. Lane
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  14. JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the opinion of the Court. Under Cage v. Louisiana
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  15. the instruction at issue to permit a finding of guilt without the requisite proof. 498 U. S., at 41. In Estelle v. McGuire
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  16. postconviction relief. By 1986, he had filed five state petitions, all of which were denied. See State ex rel. Tyler v. Blackburn
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  17. State v. Tyler
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  18. Tyler v. State
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  19. Tyler v. Maggio
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  20. So. 2d 483 (La. 1982). He next filed a federal habeas petition, which was unsuccessful as well. Tyler v. Butler
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  21. No. 88cv4929 (ED La.), aff'd, Tyler v. Whitley
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  22. Cage claim. The State District Court denied relief, and the Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed. State ex rel. Tyler v. Cain
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  23. unconstitutionally, but whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury did so apply it. See also Victor v. Nebraska
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  24. the merits of Tyler's claim and held that, although Cage should apply retroactively, App. 5-7 (citing Humphrey v. Cain
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  25. b)(4). Relying on Circuit precedent, see Brown v. Lensing
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  26. b)(2)(A). Compare Rodriguez v. Superintendent
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  27. In re Hill, 113 F.3d 181 (CAll 1997) (same), with West v. Vaughn
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  28. Davis v. Michigan
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  29. the Supreme Court does not make a rule retroactive through dictum, which is not binding. Cf. Seminole Tribe of Fla. v. Florida
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  30. application of new rules, we do not have license to question the decision on policy grounds. See Connecticut Nat. Bank v. Germain
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  31. to require as much. In Williams v. Taylor
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  32. jury instruction violated the Due Process Clause. Tyler argues, however, that a subsequent case, Sullivan v. Louisiana
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  33. that the reasoning in Sullivan makes clear that retroactive application is warranted by the principles of Teague v. Lane
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  34. narrow exceptions to the general rule of nonretroactivity. Id., at 311-313 (plurality opinion). See also O'Dell v. Netherland
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  35. U. S. 227 , 242 (1990) (quoting Teague, supra, at 311 (plurality opinion), in turn quoting Mackey v. United
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  36. the second Teague exception. The standard for determining whether an error is structural, see generally Arizona v. Fulminante
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  37. second Teague exception,7 and a 6We also reject Tyler's attempt to find support in our disposition in Adams v. Evatt
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  38. Henry v. Rock
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  39. Appeals would reject a legal premise on which it relied and which may affect the outcome of the litigation. Lawrence v. Chater
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  40. U. S. 227 , 242 (1990) (quoting Teague v. Lane
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  41. U. S. 288 , 311 (1989) (plurality opinion), in turn quoting Mackey v. United
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  42. opinion)) alter such understanding. See, e. g., Sawyer, supra, at 244 (holding that the rule in Caldwell v. Mississippi
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  43. U. S. 151 , 167 (1997) (holding that the rule in Simmons v. South
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  44. see also Caspari v. Bohlen
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  45. cf. Williams v. Taylor
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  46. easy to demonstrate the required logical relationship with respect to the first exception articulated in Teague v. Lane
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  47. Id., at 307 (plurality opinion) (quoting Mackey v. United
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  48. see also Sawyer v. Smith
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  49. Justice Breyer, With Whom Justice Stevens, Justice Souter, and Justice Ginsburg Join, Dissenting. in Cage V. Louisiana
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  50. V). I believe that it has. The Court made Cage retroactive in two cases taken together. Case One is Teague v. Lane
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