COLEMAN
v.
MONTANA; BOWEN V. GEORGIA
COLEMAN
MONTANA; BOWEN V. GEORGIA
446 U.S. 970
Supreme Court of the United States (1980)
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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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Bowen v. Kemp, 769 F.2d 672 (11th Cir. 1985)…d 322 (1978). In September of 1978, a Polk County jury again sentenced Bowen to death. The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed, Bowen v. State, 244 Ga. 495, 260 S.E. 2d 855 (1979), and the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari. Bowen v. Georgia, 446 U.S. 970, 100 S.Ct. 2952, 64 L.Ed.2d 831 (1980). Bowen then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Superior Court of Butts County. The writ was denied, as was his application to the Georgia Supreme Court for a certificate of probable cause to a…
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McGUINN v. Crist, 657 F.2d 1107 (9th Cir. 1981)…respect to the only disputed issues in the case, the erroneous instruction with respect to an undisputed issue is harmless error. Mason v. Balkcom, 487 F.Supp. 554, 559 (M.D.Ga.1980). In State v. Coleman, 605 P. 2d 1000 (Mont.1979), cert. denied, 446 U.S. 970, 100 S.Ct. 2952, 64 L.Ed.2d 831 (1980), one justice concurred in part and dissented in part, and found a difference in the harmful impact where a Sandstrom type instruction is read at a trial when the defense is alibi, as contrasted to a trial where…
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Coleman v. McCORMICK, 874 F.2d 1280 (9th Cir. 1989)…leman’s sentence was automatically reviewed by the Montana Supreme Court. Mont.Code Ann. §§ 95-2206.12 to 95-2206.-15. The court upheld his convictions and sentences. State v. Coleman, 185 Mont. 299, 605 P. 2d 1000 (1979) (Coleman II), cert. denied, 446 U.S. 970, 100 S.Ct. 2952, 64 L.Ed.2d 831 (1980); Coleman v. Sentencing Review Division of Supreme Court of Montana, 449 U.S. 893, 101 S.Ct. 255, 66 L.Ed.2d 121 (1980) (vacating stay of execution of death sentence and denying certiorari). Thereafter, Coleman…1 / 2
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- Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (U.S. 1976)