Barefoot v. Estelle
- Decided
- July 6, 1983
- Docket
- 82-6080
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 4,617 timesSuperseded by statute (verified)Possible negative treatment: superseded by statute, overruled in part on other grounds, overruled on other grounds (2 of 122 verified; none is a verified overruling) · Gerald Pizzuto, Jr. v. Randy Blades
What later courts said
- holding that to obtain a CPC, a prisoner must make “a substantial showing of the denial of a federal right” (internal quotations and alteration omitted) — Tillman v. Cook (2000)
- holding that differences in expert opinion go to weight of evidence and not to admissibility of such testimony, and it is the jury's province to resolve such disputes — Government of the Virgin Islands v. Sampson (2000)
- recognizing that the fact that psychiatric testimony “increased the likelihood that petitioner would be sentenced to death” did not render that “evidence inadmissible, any more than it would with respect to other relevant evidence against any defendant in a criminal case” — State v. Addison (2013)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
Justice White delivered the opinion of the Court.
We have two questions before us in this case: whether the District Court erred on the merits in rejecting the petition for habeas corpus filed by petitioner, and whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly denied a stay of execution of the death penalty pending appeal of the District Court’s judgment.
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Statutes cited
Cite this
Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880 (1983)Read the full opinion
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