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Moore v. Maggio

472 U.S. 1032 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1985-06-24 Docket No. 84-5717; No. 84-6621 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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No. 84-5717.
No. 84-6621.
Moore v. Maggio, Warden, et al. Jenkins v. Ohio.

C. A. 5th Cir.; and Sup. Ct. Ohio. Certiorari denied.

dissenting.

Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth

Dissent — Brennan J.

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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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