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WATKINS v. VIRGINIA

No. 85-6324.

475 U.S. 1099 (1986)

WATKINS v. VIRGINIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 31, 1986.

Certiorari denied.

Opinion of JUSTICE STEVENS respecting the denial of the petition for certiorari.

As JUSTICE MARSHALL explains in his dissenting opinion, the violation of petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to counsel requires that the sentence of death for the shooting of Betty Jean Barker be set aside. However, in view of the fact that, as petitioner has presented the issue, this error would not appear to have...

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