Roberts v. Louisiana
429 U.S. 975 | SCOTUS | 1976
C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari having been granted on November 8, 1976 [ante, p. 938], grant is hereby limited to the following question: “Whether the imposition and carrying out of the sentence of death for the crime of first-degree murder of a police officer under the law of Louisiana violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.”