| Whitmore v. Arkansas | |
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| Argued January 10, 1990 Decided April 24, 1990 | |
| Full case name | Whitmore, Individually and as Next Friend of Simmons v. Arkansas et al. |
| Docket no. | 88-7146 |
| Citations | 495 U.S. 149 (more) 110 S. Ct. 1717; 109 L. Ed. 2d 135; 1990 U.S. LEXIS 2182 |
| Argument | Oral argument |
| Holding | |
| The Eighth and the Fourteenth Amendments do not require mandatory appellate review of capital sentences. | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Rehnquist, joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy |
| Dissent | Marshall, joined by Brennan |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. VIII, XIV, 28 U.S.C. § 2242 | |
Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990), is a U.S. Supreme Court Case that held that the Eighth and the Fourteenth Amendments do not require mandatory appellate review of death penalty cases and that individuals cannot file cases as a next friend unless there is a prior relationship to the appellant and unless the appellant is "unable to litigate his own cause due to mental incapacity, lack of access to court, or other similar disability".