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Brown Vs. Sanders

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 11, 2006

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  1. Richmond Vs. Lewis US Supreme Court · Oct 13, 1992
  2. Deck Vs. Missouri US Supreme Court · May 23, 2005
  3. Stringer Vs. Black US Supreme Court · Dec 09, 1991
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  4. Tuggle Vs. Netherland US Supreme Court · Oct 30, 1995
  5. Brecht Vs. Abrahamson US Supreme Court · Apr 21, 1993
  6. Syllabus October Term, 2005 Brown V. Sanders
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  7. States, see Stringer v. Black
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  8. States, see Zant v. Stephens
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  9. Furman v. Georgia
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  10. in which Souter, J., joined. Breyer, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Ginsburg, J., joined. Brown v. Sanders
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  11. Opinion of the Court Brown V. Sanders
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  12. Supreme Court of the United States No. 04-980 Jill L. Brown, Warden, Petitioner V. Ronald
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  13. death sentence, relying on our decision in Zant v. Stephens
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  14. People v. Sanders
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  15. It affirmed the conviction and sentence in all other respects. We denied certiorari. Sanders v. California
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  16. state remedies, the District Court denied relief. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed. Sanders v. Woodford
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  17. the California court erroneously believed that it could apply the rule of Zant v. Stephens
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  18. Finding California to be a weighing State, and applying the rules we have announced for such States, see Stringer v. Black
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  19. II Since Furman v. Georgia
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  20. of fact finds at least one statutorily defined eligibility factor at either the guilt or penalty phase. See Tuilaepa v. California
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  21. s mitigating evidence. See, e.g. , Eddings v. Oklahoma
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  22. factors permitted to be considered by the sentencer were the specified eligibility factors. See, e.g. , Parker v. Dugger
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  23. see also Tuggle v. Netherland
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  24. West Supp. 2005) to be true. These are the eligibility factors designed to satisfy Furman . See People v. Bacigalupo
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  25. F. 3d, at 1061 (brackets in original) (quoting Williams v. Calderon
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  26. intent to commit assault, which is already an element of homicide, see People v. Wilson
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  27. it had previously found that to be unconstitutionally vague. Id. , at 520, 797 P. 2d, at 589 (citing People v. Superior
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  28. quoting Zant v. Stephens
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  29. review standards required by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, 110 Stat. 1214. See Lindh v. Murphy
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  30. s narrowing requirement. See, e.g., Tuilaepa v. California
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  31. of States for purposes of reviewing invalid eligibility factors in fact made no difference. Cf., e.g. , Stringer v. Black
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  32. and non-weighing States, and that harmless-error review is necessary only in the former. See, e.g. , Sanders v. Woodford
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  33. Flamer v. Delaware
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  34. Williams v. Cain
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  35. with requiring harmless-error review in both types of States. As Justice Breyer notes, post , at 8, Zant v. Stephens
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  36. s claim of constitutional error. Neither Clemons v. Mississippi
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  37. Breyer, J., dissenting). Footnote 5 This very problem may have been present in Stringer v. Black
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  38. Footnote 7 This explains the footnote in Clemons v. Mississippi
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  39. Court had arbitrarily refused to order jury resentencing, even though it had done so in an earlier case, Johnson v. State
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  40. s deliberations in other ways, but we rejected each of these theories in Zant v. Stephens
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  41. Stevens, J., Dissenting Brown V. Sanders
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  42. of an aggravating circumstance finding is to make the defendant eligible for the death penalty. See, e.g. , Zant v. Stephens
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  43. it provides a reason for deciding to impose that sentence on an eligible defendant. See, e.g., Clemons v. Mississippi
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  44. has the same legal significance as a finding of three, and invalidation of one is presumptively harmless. See Stringer v. Black
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  45. question had been presented to us, I might well have concluded that the error here was harmless. See generally Brecht v. Abrahamson
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  46. is more likely to complicate than to clarify our capital sentencing jurisprudence, I respectfully dissent. Brown v. Sanders
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  47. Breyer, J., Dissenting Brown V. Sanders
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  48. as required by the Eighth Amendment. Lowenfield v. Phelps
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  49. aggravating factors. The Court has identified Mississippi as a classic example of a weighing State. See Stringer v. Black
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  50. West Supp. 2005), aggravating factor as one of the several factors for the jury to consider at Stage One. See Godfrey v. Georgia
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