Maples v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.3d 879 · 2009
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Appellate journey
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Coleman v. Thompson · Gregg v. Georgia · Murray v. Carrier · Engle v. Isaac
Most-quoted passages
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““Maples relies primarily on Beck v. Alabama, 447 U.S. 625 , 100 S.Ct. 2382 , 65 L.Ed.2d 392 (1980), but Beck is completely inapposite because it involved an all-or-nothing statute no longer extant. In the 1970s, Beck was convicted of capital murder. In Beck , the Supreme Court invalidated an Alabama statute that absolutely prohibited in capital cases the charging of all non-capital lesser included offenses. Although the evidence warranted such an instruction in Beck’s case, the Alabama jury was given the choice only of (1) convicting Beck of the capital offense, for which the jury must impose the death penalty, or (2) setting him free. Beck, 447 U.S. at 628-30 , 100 S.Ct. at 2385-86 . The Supreme Court held Alabama’s all-or-nothing statute was unconstitutional because the absolute preclusion in a capital case of a lesser included offense, when the evidence supported it, violated procedural due process. See Beck, 447 U.S. at 627 , 100 S.Ct. at 2384 (overturning death penalty where jury ‘was not permitted to consider a verdict of guilt of a lesser included non-capital offense, and when the evidence would have supported such a verdict’); cf. Hopper v. Evans, 456 U.S. 605, 610-14 , 102 S.Ct. 2049, 2052-54 , 72 L.Ed.2d 367 (1982) (upholding death sentence even though jury was instructed on only capital offense under Alabama’s preclusion statute, because the evidence did not support a lesser included offense charge and defendant was thus not prejudiced by preclusion statute)_ [A] l”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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