Interesting 😒

No death penalty.

I don't know how this case wound up in federal courts. It isn't a death penalty case.

It appears that this appeal is maybe a fourth amendment case?

Thank you for the clarification/ correction!

The federal court below reversed the state court conviction and sentence, and the state appealed to the US Supreme Court. The six conservatives on the court ruled that the statutory basis relied on by the lower federal court for revering the state court conviction did not apply and vacated the federal court order, reinstating the state court conviction and sentence.

Thank you for the info and context!

a group of corrupt, bought, and most definitely mentally compromised men and women with lifetime posts and no oversight.

Sentenced to 25 to life after a jury found the defendant guilty of intentional murder.

In New York, a jury decides the verdict but the trial court judge decides the sentence. In this case, the defendant appealed the New York state trial court decision to the next higher New York state court and after they upheld the decision, he appealed to the highest level New York court and was turned down. He then tried the US Supreme Court and, in 2021, that Court, with no noted dissents, denied his petition for certiorari. He then went back to federal district court with his habeas petition, which was denied by a Clinton-appointed judge, but that decision was reversed by a three judge panel of the Second Circuit, which ordered the case returned to New York for a potential retrial. The Supremes reversed that decision, reinstating the Clinton judge's previous denial.

My question: along this winding road, who should have the final say over the sentence imposed on a defendant.