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Smith v. Texas

471 U.S. 1061 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1985-04-22 Docket No. 84-5972 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1061
No. 84-5972.
Smith v. Texas.

Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certio-rari denied.

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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