Legal Opinion
Williams v. Secretary Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 9, 2017No. 14-1469, 15-1390PublishedCited by 159 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
McKEE, Circuit Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
We are asked to decide whether there is a constitutionally protected liberty interest that prohibits the State from continuing to house inmates in solitary confinement 1 on death row after they have been granted resentencing hearings, without meaningful review of the continuing placement. For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that there is and that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment therefore limits the State’s ability to subject an inmate to the deprivations of death row once the death sentence initially relied…
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