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Quinones v. Texas

449 U.S. 893 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1980-10-06 Docket No. 80-5053 English

Judges Justice Stewart would grant certiorari.

Decision Majority (1) · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 893
No. 80-5053.
Quinones v. Texas.

Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied.

Justice Stewart would grant certiorari.

dissenting.

Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153 , 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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