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Roscoe v. Arizona

471 U.S. 1094 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1985-04-29 Docket No. 84-6302; No. 84-6306; No. 84-6364 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1094
No. 84-6302.
No. 84-6306.
No. 84-6364.
Roscoe v. Arizona. Campbell v. Washington. Vereen v. North Carolina.

Sup. Ct. Ariz.;

Sup. Ct. Wash.; and

Sup. Ct. N. C. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 84-6302, 145 Ariz. 212 , 700 P. 2d 1312 ; No. 84-6306, 103 Wash. 2d 1 , 691 P. 2d 929 ; No. 84-6364, 312 N. C. 499 , 324 S. E. 2d 250 .

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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