Supreme Court of the United States, 1980

Coleman v. Montana

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided May 27, 1980 · Brennan, Marshall

446 U.S. 970; 64 L. Ed. 2d 831; 100 S. Ct. 2952; 1980 U.S. LEXIS 1874 (United States Reports)

Cases that cite this one

43 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

Coleman v. State (Mont. 1981)
Dewey E. Coleman v. Henry Risley, Warden, Montana State Prison, and Michael T. Greely, Attorney General for the State of Montana (9th Cir. 1988)
Dewey E. Coleman v. Jack McCormick Warden, Montana State Prison, and Michael T. Greely, Attorney General for the State of Montana (9th Cir. 1989)
State v. Woods (Mont. 1983)
Fitzpatrick v. State (Mont. 1981)
State v. Mount (Mont. 2003)
State v. Johnson (Mont. 1998)
State v. Sattler (Mont. 1998)
State v. Cowan (Mont. 1993)
State v. Vern Kills on Top (Mont. 1990)
State v. Lester Kills on Top (Mont. 1990)
State v. Keith (Mont. 1988)
State v. Keith (Mont. 1988)
State v. Bey (N.J. 1988)
Charlie Benson Bowen v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent (11th Cir. 1985)
People v. Frank (Cal. 1985)
Members of the Jamestown School Committee v. Dr. Thomas C. Schmidt, as Commissioner of Education of the State of Rhode Island (1st Cir. 1983)
McKenzie v. Osborne (Mont. 1982)
State v. Riley (Mont. 1982)
Socialist Workers Party v. Secretary of State (Mich. 1982)
State v. Rodriguez (Mont. 1981)
State v. Longstreth (Mont. 1999)
State v. Lynch (Mont. 1998)
State v. Johnson (Mont. 1998)
State v. Sattler (Mont. 1998)

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Opinion of the Court

Sup. Ct. Mont.; and

Sup. Ct. Ga. Certio-rari denied. Reported below: No. 79-1553, -Mont. -, 605 P. 2d 1000; No. 79-5975, 244 Ga. 495, 260 S. E. 2d 855.

Dissenting Opinion

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall,

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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