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497 U.S. 1032

110 S. Ct. 3297

111 L. Ed. 2d 806

Docket No. 89-7528.

Danial Siebert v. Alabama

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 28, 1990

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1990-06-28

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Lewis v. Adamson · 555 So. 2d 780 - Ex Parte Siebert

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Decided 1990-06-28

How this case has been cited

Cited by 393 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Lambrix v. Singletary (1997), 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996)

31 federal appellate · 2 district · 297 state decisions — followed in 16 states

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Case below, Ala.Cr.App., 555 So.2d 772; 555 So.2d 780.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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June 28, 1990. Denied.

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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, 227, 231, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 2950, 2973, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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