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Between Skylla And Charybdis: The Eleventh Circuit Rushes Toward Disaster In Tucker V. Kemp, Marshall Dayan
Between Skylla And Charybdis: The Eleventh Circuit Rushes Toward Disaster In Tucker V. Kemp, Marshall Dayan
Antioch Law Journal
In January 1983, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit decided the case of Hance v. Zant. Establishing a stringent standard apparently in line with the Supreme Court's requirement of heightened reliability in capital cases, the Eleventh Circuit reversed Hance's death sentence. The court held, inter alia, that the prosecutor's inflammatory closing argument at the end of the sentencing phase of the trial was violative of the eighth and fourteenth amendments. Six months later, in a group of four other death penalty cases, the United States Supreme Court dismissed challenges to the sentencing process.2 The Court held …
Justices And Presidents: A Political History Of Appointments To The Supreme Court (2d Edition), James S. Portnoy
Justices And Presidents: A Political History Of Appointments To The Supreme Court (2d Edition), James S. Portnoy
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Justices and Presidents: A Political History of Appointments to the Supreme Court (2d edition) by Henry J. Abraham
Judge Picking, Abner J. Mikva
Judge Picking, Abner J. Mikva
Michigan Law Review
A Review of God Save This Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History by Laurence H. Tribe
Statesman Of The Old Republic, Craig Joyce
Statesman Of The Old Republic, Craig Joyce
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic by R. Kent Newmyer