GABRIEL

v.

UNITED STATES ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (26 total)

• Patterson v. New York, 432 U.S. 197 (U.S. 1977)
  …the defendant with proving his insanity defense when it dismissed, as not raising a substantial federal question, a case in which the appellant specifically challenged the continuing validity of Leland v. Oregon. This occurred in Rivera v. Delaware, 429 U. S. 877 (1976), an appeal from a Delaware conviction which, in reliance on Leland, had been affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court over the claim that the Delaware statute was unconstitutional because it burdened the defendant with proving his affirmative d…
• Walton v. Arizona, 497 U.S. 639 (U.S. 1990)
  …se when she allegedly committed the murder. In Leland v. Oregon, 343 U. S. 790 (1952), the Court upheld, in a capital case, a requirement that the defense of insanity be proved beyond a reasonable doubt by the defendant, see also Rivera v. Delaware, 429 U. S. 877 (1976), and in Patterson v. New York, 432 U. S. 197 (1977), we rejected the argument that a State violated due process by imposing a preponderance of the evidence standard on a defendant to prove the affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturba…
• Martin v. Ohio, 480 U.S. 228 (U.S. 1987)
  …the defendant had not proved his affirmative defense. The jury convicted Patterson, and we held there was no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment as construed in Winship. Referring to Leland v. Oregon, 343 U. S. 790 (1952), and Rivera v. Delaware, 429 U. S. 877 (1976), we added that New York “did no more than Leland and Rivera permitted it to do without violating the Due Process Clause” and declined to reconsider those cases. 432 U. S., at 206, 207. It was also observed that “the fact that a majority of th…

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