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Briley v. Director of the Department of Corrections

461 U.S. 918 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1983-05-02 Docket No. 82-1491; No. 82-6412 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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No. 82-1491.
No. 82-6412.
Briley v. Director of the Department of Corrections. Felde v. Louisiana.

Sup. Ct. Va.; and

Sup. Ct. La. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 82-6412, 422 So. 2d 370 .

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 sentences in these cases.

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