Supreme Court of the United States, 1983

Booker v. Wainwright

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 17, 1983 · Brennan, Marshall

464 U.S. 922; 104 S. Ct. 290; 52 U.S.L.W. 3309; 78 L. Ed. 2d 266; 1983 U.S. LEXIS 2030 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

C. A. 11th Cir.; and

C. A. 11th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 83-5209, 703 F. 2d 1251; No. 83-5267, 695 F. 2d 1306.

Dissenting Opinion

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth *923and 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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