Bowen v. Kemp (1986)

See Brooks v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1383, 1403 (11th Cir.1985) (attorney may not hint that he has additional evidence he has not produced), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3337 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986).

See Public Citizen v. Bomer, 115 F.Supp.2d 743, 746 (W.D.Tex.2000), aff'd on other grounds, 274 F.3d 212 (5th Cir.2001); see also Baker v. Wade, 769 F.2d 289, 299 (5th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3337 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986) (Rubin, J., dissenting).

Accord Baker v. Wade, 769 F.2d 289, 292 (5th Cir.1985) (en banc), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3337 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986) (pronouncing that homosexuals compose neither a suspect nor a quasi-suspect class); National Gay Task Force v. Board of Education of Oklahoma City, 729 F.2d 1270, 1273 (10th Cir.1984), aff'd mem. by an equally divided Court, 470 U.S. 903 , 105 S.Ct. 1858 , 84 L.Ed.2d 776 (1985) (resolving that the legal classification of gays is not suspect) …

Accord, Baker v. Wade, 769 F.2d 289, 292 (5th Cir.1985) (en banc), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3337 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986) (homosexuals compose neither a' suspect nor a quasi-suspect class); National Gay Task Force v. Board of Education of Oklahoma City, 729 F.2d 1270, 1273 (10th Cir.1984), aff'd mem. by an equally divided Court, 470 U.S. 903 , 105 S.Ct. 1858 , 84 L.Ed.2d 776 (1985) (legal classification of gays is not suspect) (both decided prior to Bowers). .

V, § 21; see also Baker v. Wade, 769 F.2d 289, 291 (5th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3338 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986). .

V, § 21; see also Baker v. Wade, 769 F.2d 289, 291 (5th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3338 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986) 26 I say "curiously" because Chief Justice Phillips has never sought to represent the interests of the state in this appeal.

See Deveraux v. Geary, 765 F.2d 268, 274 (1st Cir.1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1021 , 106 S.Ct. 3337 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986).

Accord, United States v. Blackwell, 224 U.S.App.D.C. 350, 366 , 694 F.2d 1325, 1341 (1982) 74 Brief for Appellee at 36 75 Brooks v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1383, 1413 (11th Cir.1985) (en banc ), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3337 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986) 76 Brief for Appellee at 36 77 See text supra at note 49 78 See text supra at note 51.

See United States v. Tucker, 773 F.2d 136, 139-40 (7th Cir.1985) (where corroboration exists, incredibility less of a concern), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3338 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986).

United States v. Smith, 563 F.2d 1361, 1363 (9th Cir.1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 1021 , 98 S.Ct. 747 , 54 L.Ed.2d 769 (1978); see United States v. Tucker, 773 F.2d 136, 139 (7th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1021 , 106 S.Ct. 3337 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986).

See also United States v. Tucker, 773 F.2d 136, 141 (7th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 478, U.S. 1022, 106 S.Ct. 3338 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986) (if the person taking the test refuses to agree beforehand to its admissibility irrespective of the test’s outcome, the polygraph’s reliability is even more questionable).

For cases applying the same test to generic due process violations in the context of prosecutorial misconduct, see id. at 281 (‘There is such unfairness only if the prosecutor’s remarks evince ‘either persistent and pronounced misconduct or ... the evidence was so insubstantial that (in probability) but for the remarks no conviction would have occurred’ ” (quoting Fulford, 692 F.2d at 359 )); Byrne, 845 F.2d at 508 ; Bridge, 838 F.2d at 774 ; Welcome, 793 F.2d at 679 ; Willi…

For cases applying the same test to generic due process violations in the context of prosecutorial misconduct, see id. at 281 ("There is such unfairness only if the prosecutor's remarks evince 'either persistent and pronounced misconduct or ... the evidence was so insubstantial that (in probability) but for the remarks no conviction would have occurred' " (quoting Fulford, 692 F.2d at 359 )); Byrne, 845 F.2d at 508 ; Bridge, 838 F.2d at 774 ; Welcome, 793 F.2d at 679 ; Willi…

See United States v. Tucker, 773 F.2d 136, 139 (7th Cir.1985), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 106 S.Ct. 3338 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 , reh’g denied, — U.S. —, 107 S.Ct. 23 , 92 L.Ed.2d 774 (1986).

See Brooks v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1383 , 1411-12 and n. 46 (11th Cir.1985) (in discussing the propriety of prison escape argument in penalty phase, the court observed, "Although there was no record evidence concerning escape, the fact that escape is a possibility was within the common public knowledge."), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3337 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986); People v. Hovey, 44 Cal.3d 543 , 244 Cal.Rptr. 121 , 749 P.2d 776, 798 (1988) ("Rather than comment upon th…

It is not the duty of the federal habeas court “to ask whether a particular remark was unfair; we are concerned with whether it rendered the entire trial unfair.” Brooks, 762 F.2d at 1400 . “[E]rrors, even serious errors, will not require reversal on a petition for writ of habeas corpus unless their absence would have, in reasonable probability, changed the outcome.” Id. at 1401 (emphasis added); see also Bowen v. Kemp, 769 F.2d 672, 679 (11th Cir.1985) (“law is clear that h…

See Brooks v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1383, 1410 (11th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3337 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986).

See also Brooks v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1383, 1411-12 (11th Cir.1985), 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3337 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986).

See, unfortunately, Baker v. Wade, 769 F.2d 289 (5th Cir.1985) (en banc), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 106 S.Ct. 3338 , 92 L.Ed.2d 742 (1986) (morality justifies prohibiting consensual sodomy); Bowers v. Hardwick, — U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 2841 , 92 L.Ed.2d 140 (1986) (same).