Legal Opinion

Humphreys v. Emmons

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 14, 2025No. 24-826Relating-to

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607 U. S. ____

(2025) 1 SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES STACEY IAN HUMPHREYS, PETITIONER v. SHAWN EMMONS, WARDEN ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 24–826. Decided October 14, 2025 The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. In 2007, a Georgia jury convicted Stacey Humphreys of murder and robbery, and sentenced him to death. It did so only after one of the jurors, during voir…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  3. Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  4. Allen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  5. Woodson v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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