Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Dobbert v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

468 U.S. 1231

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1984-09-07
Topic
intellectual-property-and-technology

a "frenzied rush to execution ... has become a common, if Kafkaesque, feature of the Court’s capital cases” | a "frenzied rush to execution ... has become a common, if Kafkaesque, feature of the Court's capital cases" | “Recantation testimony is properly viewed with great suspicion. It. . . is very often unreliable and given for suspect motives. ...” | “Recantation testimony is properly viewed with great suspicion. It ... is very often unreliable ..., and most often serves merely to impeach cumulative evidence rather than to undermine confidence in the accuracy of the conviction.” | "Recantation testimony is properly viewed with great suspicion.” | “[R]ecantations are viewed with extreme suspicion by the courts.” | “[R]ecantations are viewed with extreme suspicion by the courts.” | “[R]ecantations are viewed with extreme suspicion by the courts.”

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C. A. 11th Cir. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Powell, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Certiorari denied.

Justice Stevens would grant the application for stay of execution.