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JOHNSON v. MISSISSIPPI

No. 87-5468.

486 U.S. 578 (1988)

108 S.Ct. 1981

100 L.Ed.2d 575

JOHNSON v. MISSISSIPPI

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 13, 1988

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd Abrams argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Laurence T. Sorkin, Marshall Cox, Anthony Paduano, and Clive A. Stafford Smith.

Marvin L. White, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of Mississippi, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Mike Moore, Attorney General.*

JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1982, petitioner was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The sentence was predicated, in part, on the fact that petitioner had been convicted of a felony in New York in 1963. After the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed petitioner's death sentence, the New York Court of Appeals reversed the 1963 conviction. Petitioner thereafter unsuccessfully sought postconviction relief from the Mississippi Supreme Court...

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