Supreme Court· 3/5/1990

Butler v. McKellar

Citations

494 U.S. 407
110 S. Ct. 1212
108 L. Ed. 2d 347
1990 U.S. LEXIS 1246

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

deciding that a new rule was not substantive because “[t]he pro- scribed conduct” was “capital murder, the prosecution of which is, to put it mildly, not prohibited by the rule”
holding that a case announced a new rule because its outcome was “susceptible to debate among reasonable minds”
concluding that a rule was new under Teague because it “was susceptible to de- bate among reasonable minds”
holding that the new rule of Arizona v. Roberson, 486 U.S. 675, 108 S.Ct. 2093, 100 L.Ed.2d 704 (1988) — barring police-initiated interrogation following a suspect's request for counsel — is not watershed
noting that it is insufficient that a result is considered to be merely “controlled” or “governed” by prior decisions
noting that it is insufficient that a result is considered to be merely \controlled\ or \governed\ by prior decisions

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Judges: Rehnquist, White, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens

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