Legal Opinion
Moore v. Cowan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 26, 1977No. Nos. 76-1859, 76-1889, 76-2377 and 76-2378PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREEN, Senior District Judge.
These appeals from denials of writs of habeas corpus have been consolidated for the reason that each presents the same basic constitutional issue — whether the imposition of the punishment of life imprisonment without parole for the rape of a female over twelve years old is constitutionally impermissible as violative of the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment of the Eighth Amendment and/or is a denial of the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
There are, in addition, individual claims advanced on…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Doyle v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Stone v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Schlesinger v. BallardSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Schick v. ReedSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Joseph Riley v. Frank H. Gray, Supt.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1982
- United States v. Kenneth Huie DavisCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1986
- United States v. Leo KleinCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- Charles Edward Jenkins v. Donald E. Bordenkircher, Superintendent, Kentucky State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1979
- Bangert v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1979
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