Pulley v. Harris

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Pulley v. Harris
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 7, 1983
Decided January 23, 1984
Full case name: Pulley v. Harris
Citations: 465 U.S. 37
Holding
Affirmed.
Court membership
Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority by: White
Joined by: Burger, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, and O'Connor, Stevens (except Part III)
Concurrence by: Stevens
Dissent by: Brennan
Joined by: Marshall

Pulley v. Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that there was no constitutional requirement for a proportionality review of sentences in comparable cases throughout a state.

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