*1 No. 88-6588. McDowell Cal.; Sup. Ct. v. California. v. Texas. No. 88-6650. Purtell Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; No. 88-6716. Nevius v. Sumner, Director, De- Nevada partment Prisons, C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari de- nied.
Justice Brennan Marshall, Justice dissenting. Adhering to our views that the death penalty is all circum- stances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, v. Gregg Georgia, 428 U. S. we certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases. Township No. 88-987. Hesse v. Board of Education
High School District No. County, Illinois, Cook et al., 1015; U. S. No. 88-1240. Ainsworth v. State Bar of California, U. S. 1081;
No. 88-1279. Sutherland
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rehearing denied. No. 88-232. Grossman States, United 1040.
Motion of petitioner for proceed leave to further herein in forma pauperis granted. Petition for rehearing denied. (A-875). No. 88-7140 Dugger, Adams Secretary, Flor- Department
ida C. A. 11th of Corrections. Cir. for stay of execution of sentence of presented to Justice himby Kennedy, denied. Certiorari denied.
Justice Brennan, with whom Marshall joins, Justice dissenting.
Adhering to view my that the death penalty all circum- stances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited *2 153, Georgia, Amendments, Gregg
and Fourteenth and of execution a (1976), I motion grant would the sentence the death vacate and the for a writ of certiorari in this case.
II to view, I the grant I not take Even if did violated this case in sentencing procedure the whether consider defendant convicted that a requirement Amendment the evidence— mitigating any relevant to opportunity present have the sentencing hearing. the just statutory not factors —at mitigating (1987). Supreme Florida The Hitchcock v. Dugger, 481 U. S. claim procedurally Hitchcock declined to petitioner’s Court find State, Adams v. merits. on the barred addressed this claim (1989). Likewise, Court ad- the District 543 So. 2d proper not a merits, determining petitioner’s the that “is dressed (MD Fla., 89-67-Civ-Oc-16, May issue.” 5p. Hitchcock No. 1989). Moreover, peti- since Hitchcock was not decided until after petition, federal habeas no abuse had filed his second detect tioner this claim time. raising in now for the first petitioner of the writ sentenced, jury was Florida’s “standard petitioner At the time which had the effect the charge limiting instructions included a statutory aggravating mitigating consideration the jury’s to circumstances,” may what have 2d, reflecting at 543 So. State, upon based such as the decisions general belief in the (Fla. State, 1976), fac- mitigating that 2d Cooper So. statute, §921.141 in the Fla. Stat. specifically tors not itemized account Reason- sentencing. not to into were be taken a jury or from con- prohibited that court ably believing state law sentencing, lawyer might a nonstatutory at sidering factors resources from aspects other have declined to divert rationally investigation, development, presen- into the development case Indeed, petitioner’s two of evidence of such factors. tation of that, effect on the operating the filed affidavits to counsel have time, they be the law at the did they of what understood basis they evidence because did not nonstatutory pursue mitigating not I would certiorari be it would admissible. believe pur- disincentives to the state-generated whether case to consider petitioner’s evidence infected presentation mitigating suit and with constitutional error. sentencing request in this initially petitioner’s case denied judge The trial jury they might instruction to the that consider sentencing a closing prosecutor’s factors. After the however, announced that sentencing, judge the trial argument at mind, prosecutor’s the clos- he his that because changed had only as the miti- ing statutory mitigating listed circumstances had consider, re- give could he would gating factors circumstances which quested aggravating ‘“[t]he instruction that in- you just limited to which I’ve upon consider are those may However, miti- upon there is no such limitation structed you. 2d, 543 So. at 1247. This may consider.’” See gating you factors petitioner’s too late to allow to have come change appears of mind prior that the court’s evidence develop counsel to *3 reasonably be- law, had led them to ruling, existing instruction to consider inadmissible. A belated lieve would be effect of which has cure a defect evidence cannot little or no ensure that there is evidence for the or court to consider.
May 9, 1989 Ippolito WNS, Inc. A. 7th Cir. C. this Rule 53. under Court’s Certiorari dismissed
May 11, 1989 stay of exe- Idaho. for Lankford No. A-881. O’Connor, and to Justice of presented cution of sentence timely filing pending granted her writ of certiorari. petition of a by this Court disposition denied, stay ter- of certiorari be for writ Should the writ of cer- In event the automatically. minates the issuance pending shall continue granted, tiorari of this Court. mandate for Human Resources Hesler Cabinet Kentucky. Ky. dismissed for want sub- App. from Ct. Appeal question. stantial federal