ADAMS
v.
FLORIDA; DAVIS V. GEORGIA
ADAMS
FLORIDA; DAVIS V. GEORGIA
439 U.S. 947
Supreme Court of the United States (1978)
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Dissent
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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Adams v. State, 380 So. 2d 423 (Fla. 1980)…standards as stated in Gardner v. Florida, 430 U.S. 349, 97 S.Ct. 1197, 51 L.Ed.2d 393 (1977), and thus entitled appellant to a new sentencing hearing. This application for relief was denied. Adams v. State, 355 So. 2d 1205 (Fla.1978), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 947, 99 S.Ct. 340, 58 L.Ed.2d 338 (1978). In the instant petition, appellant first contends that (a) there was inflammatory testimony presented by the state, and argument propounded by the prosecutor, which were prejudicial, (b) the sentencing judge re…1 / 2
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Adams v. State, 449 So. 2d 819 (Fla. 1984)…. 2d 765 (Fla.1976), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 878, 98 S.Ct. 232, 54 L.Ed.2d 158 (1977), this Court, in Adams’ direct appeal, affirmed both the conviction and the imposition of the death penalty. In Adams v. State, 355 So. 2d 1205 (Fla.), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 947, 99 S.Ct. 340, 58 L.Ed.2d 338 (1978), this Court rejected Adams’ Gardner challenge to his sentence. See Gardner v. Florida, 430 U.S. 349, 97 S.Ct. 1197, 51 L.Ed.2d 393 (1977). In Adams v. State, 380 So. 2d 421 (Fla.1980), this Court resolved a dis…
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Adams v. Louie L. Wainwright, 709 F.2d 1443 (11th Cir. 1983)…f based on the trial court’s alleged reliance on confidential and erroneous information during the penalty phase of the trial, Adams v. State, 355 So. 2d 1205 (Fla.1978), and the United States Supreme Court again denied certiorari. Adams v. Florida, 439 U.S. 947, 99 S.Ct. 340, 58 L.Ed.2d 338 (1978). When the Florida state courts denied any collateral relief, Adams v. State, 380 So. 2d 423 (Fla.1980), Adams filed his petition for ha-beas corpus relief in federal district court. The district court denied t…
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- Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (U.S. 1976)