Whitlow v. Hodges

How later courts describe this case

• holding that death row petitioner may competently waive further review of his conviction and sentence
• finding that Gary Gilmore had made a knowing and intelligent waiver of any federal rights he might have asserted after a trial court had convicted him
• recognizing, for purposes of stay, next-friend standing of mother on behalf of prisoner
• indicating that a mother had no standing to contest her son’s execution
• taking of blood and urine samples together implicates Fourth Amendment concerns
• court declines jurisdiction over application for stay of execution filed by Gary Gilmore’s mother over his objection
• convicted murderer’s mother could not seek stay of execution where murderer himself knowingly and intelligently waived his right to appeal
• stay of execution terminated because record evidence established "that the State's determinations of his competence knowingly and intelligently to waive any and all such rights [to appeal] were firmly grounded"