Legal Opinion
White v. Woodall
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 23, 2014No. 12-794PublishedCited by 2,104 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
*417 Respondent brutally raped, slashed with a box cutter, and drowned a 16-year-old *1701 high-school student. After pleading guilty to murder, rape, and kidnaping, he was sentenced to death. The Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed the sentence, and we denied certiorari. Ten years later, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted respondent's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on his Fifth Amendment claim. In so doing, it disregarded the limitations of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (d) -a provision of law that some federal judges find too confining, but that all federal judges must obey. We reverse.
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