Pulley v. Harris
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Pulley v. Harris | ||||||||||
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Supreme Court of the United States | ||||||||||
Argued November 7, 1983 Decided January 23, 1984 |
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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 |
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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.