ROWAN

v.

OWENS, SUPERINTENDENT, INDIANA STATE REFORMATORY

Citator

Cited By (23 total)

• Traylor v. State, 596 So. 2d 957 (Fla. 1992)
  …counsel is relevant evidence, but the lack of such an agreement does not excuse a subsequent failure to honor counsel's instructions. . The only case I have found making a contrary assertion — State v. Beck, 687 S.W. 2d 155 (Mo.1985), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1140, 106 S.Ct. 2245, 90 L.Ed.2d 692 (1986) — is singularly unpersuasive. First, the case is factually distinguishable. In Beck, the Missouri Supreme Court confronted a case in which an attorney also had not spoken with the client, much like the facts in…
• Files v. State, 586 So. 2d 352 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991)
  …cretion of the trial court and will not be reversed in the absence of a palpable abuse of discretion. Commonwealth v. Hardcastle, 519 Pa. 236, 256, 546 A. 2d 1101, 1110 (1988); Commonwealth v. Colson, 507 Pa. 440, 490 A. 2d 811 (1985), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1140, 106 S.Ct. 2245, 90 L.Ed.2d 692 (1986). In State v. Young, 569 So. 2d 570 (La.Ct.App.1990), a Louisiana court applied the Batson "great deference” standard. . Quoting term coined by Chief Judge Schwartz in Smith v. State, 574 So. 2d 1195, 1196 (Fl…
• Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (U.S. 1987)
  …court observed that, if the admission of the competency report had been an error, it was harmless, given petitioner’s confession and the overwhelming evidence of his guilt. Ibid. Because of the nature of the issues involved, we granted certiorari, 476 U. S. 1140 (1986). II Last Term, in Lockhart v. McCree, 476 U. S. 162 (1986), this Court held that the Constitution does not “prohibit the removal for cause, prior to the guilt phase of a bifurcated capital trial, of prospective jurors whose opposition to th…