O'Dell v. Netherland, 521 U.S. 151 (1997), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the rule of Simmons v. South Carolina, that a capital defendant has the right to have their jury informed of their parole ineligibility where their future dangerousness is put at issue, does not apply retroactively to cases on federal habeas corpus review.[1]
| O'Dell v. Netherland | |
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| Argued March 18, 1997 Decided June 19, 1997 | |
| Full case name | Joseph Roger O'Dell, III, Petitioner, v. J.D. Netherland, Warden, Mecklenburg Correctional Center, et al., Respondents. |
| Docket no. | 96-6867 |
| Citations | 521 U.S. 151 (more) |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Convictions and sentences upheld, O'Dell v. Commonwealth, 234 Va. 672, 364 S.E.2d 491 (1988); affirmed on rehearing, Record No. 861219 (Va., April 1, 1988); cert. denied, O'Dell v. Virginia, 488 U.S. 871 (1988); rehearing denied, 488 U.S. 977 (1988); habeas corpus denied (Va. Cir., City of Virginia Beach, November 26, 1990); petition for appeal dismissed (Va., April 1, 1991); rehearing denied (Va., June 7, 1991); cert. denied, O'Dell v. Thompson, 502 U.S. 995 (1991); habeas corpus granted in part, denied in part (E.D. Va., September 6, 1994); reversed in part, affirmed in part, O'Dell v. Netherland, 95 F.3d 1214 (4th Cir. 1996); stay granted, 519 U.S. 1049 (1996) (Rehnquist, C.J., in chambers); cert. granted in part, 519 U.S. 1050 (1996). |
| Holding | |
| Simmons v. South Carolina does not apply retroactively to cases on federal habeas corpus review. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Thomas, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy |
| Dissent | Stevens, joined by Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. XIV | |
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