Legal Opinion
Ramdass v. Angelone
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 12, 2000No. 99-7000PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Kennedy
Petitioner received a death sentence in the Commonwealth of Virginia for murder in the course of robbery. On review of a decision denying relief in federal habeas corpus, he seeks to set aside the death sentence in reliance on Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U. S. 154 (1994). He argues the jury should have been instructed of his parole ineligibility based on prior criminal convictions. We reject, his claims and conclude Simmons is inapplicable to petitioner since he was not parole ineligible when the jury considered his case, nor would he have been parole ineligible by reason of a conviction…
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