Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Sentencing : From 10/01/04 To 07/01/05
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | Bell v. Thompson |
| Date: | 06/27/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-514 |
| Summary: | In a death sentence case, following the denial of defendant's petition for certiorari, the Court of Appeals abused its discretion when it withheld its mandate for more than five months without entering a formal order. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sentencing |
| Title: | Rompilla v. Beard |
| Date: | 06/20/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-5462 |
| Summary: | Even when a capital defendant and his family members have suggested that no mitigating evidence is available, his lawyer is bound to make reasonable efforts to obtain and review material that counsel knows the prosecution will probably rely on as evidence of aggravation at the trial's sentencing phase. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | Dodd v. US |
| Date: | 06/20/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-5286 |
| Summary: | Under 28 U.S.C. section 2255, the 1-year limitation period for a federal prisoner to file a motion to vacate his sentence begins to run on the date in which the Supreme Court "initially recognized" the right asserted in an applicant's motion, not the date on which that right was made retroactive. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | Deck v. Missouri |
| Date: | 05/23/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-5293 |
| Summary: | The Constitution forbids the use of visible shackles during a capital trial's penalty phase, as it does during the guilt phase, unless that use is "justified by an essential state interest" specific to the defendant on trial. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | SHEPARD v. US |
| Date: | 03/07/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-9168 |
| Summary: | A court sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act may not look to police reports or complaint applications to determine whether an earlier guilty plea necessarily admitted, and supported a conviction for, generic burglary. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law, Sentencing |
| Title: | ROPER v. SIMMONS |
| Date: | 03/01/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-633 |
| Summary: | The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were under the age of 18 when their crimes were committed. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | JOHNSON v. CALIFORNIA |
| Date: | 02/23/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-636 |
| Summary: | Strict scrutiny is the proper standard of review for an equal protection challenge to the California Department of Corrections' unwritten policy of racially segregating prisoners in double cells upon entering a new correctional facility. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | US v. BOOKER |
| Date: | 01/12/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-104 |
| Summary: | The Federal Sentencing Guidelines limit the severity of the sentence that a judge can lawfully impose on a defendant to the facts found by the jury at trial. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Per Curiam, Sentencing |
| Title: | SMITH v. TEXAS |
| Date: | 11/15/04 |
| Case Number: | 04-5323 |
| Summary: | Defendant's sentence to death for a capital murder conviction is reversed where the trial judge improperly issued a supplemental nullification instruction that was constitutionally indadequate under Penry v. Johnson 532 U.S. 782 (2001). |