Hartfield v. Thaler

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that defendant's conviction and sentence were vacated and order for new trial became final when mandate issued
• answering a certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• “The purpose of commutation is to reduce a sentence that was already imposed.”
• Governor has no authority to commute a defendant’s death sentence after the defendant’s conviction had already been reversed and the appellate court has issued its mandate, because there was no longer a death sentence to commute
• “As soon as mandate issued, Petitioner’s conviction and sentence were vacated, our order for a new trial became final, and the case was returned to the point it would have been had there never been a trial.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).