Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Velma P. Cooper v. United States
Velma P. Cooper v. United States, 471 U.S. 1130 (1985)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1985-05-28
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that “urging and advising” witness to testify falsely violates section 1512 without indicating whether there was intimidation or misleading conduct
- holding Eighth Amendment prohibits imposition of death sentence by a sentencer that has been misled to believe the responsibility for deciding the appropriateness of the death sentence rests elsewhere
- White, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari in the face of conflicting decisions of two circuits on construction of federal statute
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 748 F. 2d 962.