Legal Opinion
Gilmore v. Taylor
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 7, 1993No. 91-1738PublishedCited by 449 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
delivered the opinion of the Court.†
Respondent Kevin Taylor was convicted of murder by an Illinois jury and sentenced to 85 years’ imprisonment. After his conviction and sentence became final, he sought federal habeas relief on the ground that the jury instructions given at his trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted relief on the basis of its recent decision in Falconer v. Lane, 905 F. 2d 1129 (1990), which held that the Illinois pattern jury instructions on murder and voluntary manslaughter were unconstitutional…
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