Supreme Court· 12/23/1974

Schick v. Reed

Citations

419 U.S. 256
95 S. Ct. 379
42 L. Ed. 2d 430
1974 U.S. LEXIS 159

How courts have described this case

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holding that limits to the President’s pardon power “if any, must be found in the Constitution itself”
ob-serving that the President can always provide relief from a no-parole condition to a federal prisoner (emphasis added)
explaining that the Constitution authorizes the President to impose, in commuting a sentence, “conditions which are in themselves constitutionally unobjectionable”
noting that \ 'no-parole' condition attached to the commutation of [petitioner's] death sentence is similar to sanctions imposed by legislatures such as mandatory minimum sentences or statutes otherwise precluding parole\ and citing 21 U.S.C. § 848(c
explaining that the pardon power “ flows from the constitution alone . . . and . . . cannot be modi fied, abridged, or diminished by the Congress”
noting that “[t]he idea later developed that the subject’s consent to transportation [as a condition of a pardon] was necessary, but in most cases he was simply ‘agreeing’ that his life should be spared”

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Judges: Burger, Stewart, White, Blackmün, Powell, Rehnquist, Marshall, Douglas, Brennan

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