Opinion

State v. Moore

  • 210 Neb. 457
  • 316 N.W.2d 33
  • 1982 Neb. LEXIS 932
Court
Nebraska Supreme Court
Filed
Jan 29, 1982
Status
Published
Author
Krivosha
On the bench
Krivosha, Boslaugh, McCown, Clinton, Brodkey, White, Hastings
Cited by
56 cases

declining to address issue based upon plethora of precedent holding that Nebraska death penalty statutes are neither vague nor overbroad

How later courts described this case

  • declining to address issue based upon plethora of precedent holding that Nebraska death penalty statutes are neither vague nor overbroad
  • involving murders of cab drivers found to be coldly planned as part of robberies and repetitive, where victims were chosen on the basis of age
  • proportionality review includes all other first degree murder convictions
  • conducting proportionality review by comparison with all other first-degree-murder convic *137 tions

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Krivosha, C.J., and White, J.,

concur in that portion of the opinion affirming the conviction, and *481 dissent from that portion of the opinion affirming the imposition of the death penalty. We would have sentenced the appellant to be confined for the balance of his natural life.

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