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Malone v. California

490 U.S. 1095 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1989-05-30 Docket No. 88-6968; No. 88-6995 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1095
No. 88-6968.
Malone v. California. Moore v. California.
No. 88-6995.

Sup. Ct. Cal.; and Sup. Ct. Cal. Certiorari 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 sentences in these cases.

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