Court Opinion

ID: 9767600
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:22:31.719379+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:31.744235
License: Public Domain

SEILER, Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent, on the ground we should await the disposition of Maxwell v. Bishop, 393 U.S. 997, 89 S.Ct. 488, 21 L.Ed. 2d 462, in which certorari was granted, one point for consideration being “Whether Arkansas’ practice of permitting the trial jury absolute discretion, uncontrolled by standards or directions of any kind, to impose the death penalty violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? ”
It is possible the Maxwell v. Bishop case will settle the question. Even if it does not, I would like to see the reasoning used and authorities relied on by the highest court in the land in passing on this important question before arriving at a decision on the merits in this case.