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472 U.S. 1033

105 S. Ct. 3516

87 L. Ed. 2d 645

Milton v. McCotter

Supreme Court of the United States

June 25, 1985

Supreme Court of the United States · decided June 25, 1985

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

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Decided June 25, 1985

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2000 · most notably Glass v. Louisiana (1985), State v. Sanders (1994)

14 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

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The application for stay of execution of the sentence of death scheduled for Tuesday, June 25, 1985, presented to Justice White and by him referred to the Court is denied.

Justice BRENNAN and Justice MARSHALL dissenting:

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Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia,428 U.S. 153, 337, 231, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 2950, 2973, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976), we would grant the application for stay, a petition for writ of certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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