Bell v. Cone

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 2005-01-24

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Per Curiam. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted a writ of habeas corpus to respondent Gary Bradford Cone after concluding that the “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel” aggravating circumstance found by the jury at the *448 sentencing phase of his trial was unconstitutionally vague, and that the Tennessee Supreme Court failed to cure an…

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