Randy WHITE, Warden, Petitioner
v.
Robert Keith WOODALL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued December 11, 2013.
Decided April 23, 2014.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Susan R. Lenz, Frankfort, KY, for Petitioner.
Laurence E. Komp, appointed by Court, Ballwin, MO, for Respondent.
Jack Conway, Attorney General of Kentucky, Susan Roncarti Lenz, Counsel of Record, Assistant Attorney General, Ian G. Sonego, Special Assistant Attorney General, Frankfort, KY, for Petitioner.
Heather E. Williams, Federal Defender, David H. Harshaw III, Assistant Federal Defender, Sacramento, CA, Dennis J. Burke, Assistant Public Advocate, LaGrange, KY, Laurence E. Komp, Counsel of Record, Attorney at Law, Manchester, MO, for Respondent Robert Keith Woodall.
Supreme Court of United States.
Justice SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court.
Respondent brutally raped, slashed with a box cutter, and drowned a 16-year-old high-school student. After pleading guilty to murder, rape, and kidnaping, he was sentenced to death. The Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed the sentence, and we denied certiorari. Ten years later, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted respondent's petition for a writ of habeas corpus...
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