Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Ring v. Arizona · Schriro Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Summerlin · Lindsay v. Beneficial Reinsurance Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“This Court has the authority to review and revise sentences, but only within the parameters of the sentencing statutes. If this were a direct appeal from a trial conducted under the 2002 law, we therefore could not revise the sentence to impose death. We thus are faced with a situation very similar to that in Saylor. We have a defendant sentenced to death through a procedure that would be improper today. Accordingly, Lambert’s case, like Saylor’s, is not appropriate for death under the current death penalty statute. I would let Lambert proceed to test his claim that a proper penalty phase would provide a recommendation against death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lambert v. Davis
How this case has been treated — in progress
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