Whitmore v. Arkansas
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Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990), is a U.S. Supreme Court Case that held that the Eighth and the Fourteenth Amendments do not require mandatory appellate review of death penalty cases and that individuals cannot file cases as a next friend unless there is a prior relationship to the appellant and unless the appellant is "unable to litigate his own cause due to mental incapacity, lack of access to court, or other similar disability".
Quick Facts Whitmore v. Arkansas, Argued January 10, 1990 Decided April 24, 1990 ...
Whitmore v. Arkansas | |
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Argued January 10, 1990 Decided April 24, 1990 | |
Full case name | Whitmore, Individually and as Next Friend of Simmons v. Arkansas et al. |
Docket no. | 88-7146 |
Citations | 495 U.S. 149 (more) 110 S. Ct. 1717; 109 L. Ed. 2d 135; 1990 U.S. LEXIS 2182 |
Argument | Oral argument |
Holding | |
The Eighth and the Fourteenth Amendments do not require mandatory appellate review of capital sentences. | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Rehnquist, joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy |
Dissent | Marshall, joined by Brennan |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. VIII, XIV, 28 U.S.C. § 2242 |
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