GRAY
v.
THOMPSON, WARDEN

U.S. | 1991-05-28
No. 90-7733
500 U.S. 949 Supreme Court of the United States (1991) Positive Treatment
Cited by 2 cases
Dissent
Justice Marshall,

Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Adhering to rñy view 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, 231 (1976), I would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.

Cases With Similar Vibessemantic neighbors from the corpus

Citator

Cited By

  • Gray v. Netherland, 518 U.S. 152 (U.S. 1996)
    …we denied certiorari, Gray v. Virginia, 484 U. S. 873 (1987). The Suffolk Circuit Court dismissed petitioner’s state petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal, and we denied certiorari. Gray v. Thompson, 500 U. S. 949 (1991). C Petitioner then sought a writ of habeas corpus from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. With respect to the Sorrell murders, he argued, inter alia, that he had “never been convicted of any of these crim…
  • Fid. Fin. Servs., Inc. v. Fink, 522 U.S. 211 (U.S. 1998)
    …t a transfer is perfected under § 547(c)(3)(B) as of the date that the creditor’s lien has priority under state law), and In re Busenlehner, 918 F. 2d 928, 930-931 (CA11 1990) (same), cert. denied sub nom. Moister v. General Motors Acceptance Corp., 500 U. S. 949 (1991). As Fidelity suggested in passing at oral argument, see Tr. of Oral Arg. 22-23, its reading of the term “perfected” in § 547(e)(1)(B) would carry another consequence. If the lien were “perfected” under that provision as of the date of its cr…

Authorities Cited

Full citator, related cases, and AI research tools

Open in FLexlaw