Court Opinion

ID: 9430212
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:29:13.222067+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:23.686438
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Justice Powell,
concurring in the granting of the application for a stay.
My vote is to grant the application for a stay, although I find no merit whatever in any of the claims advanced in the petition for certiorari. All of these claims have been carefully considered and repeatedly rejected by the courts below, including as recently as this afternoon the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and this evening the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Indeed the petition for certiorari was merely the stay application that had been denied, and restyled on the request of counsel as a petition for certiorari. But in view of the unusual situation in which four Justices have voted to grant certiorari *929(doing so -without waiting for the Court of Appeals to act on Darden’s second federal habeas petition that was before that court this evening), and in view of the fact that this is a capital case with petitioner’s life at stake, and further in view of the fact that the Justices are scattered geographically and unable to meet for a Conference, I feel obligated to join in granting the application for a stay.