March 6, 1989
DONALD LEE MAURER, PETITIONER
v.
OHIO
C.A. Oh., Stark County; Reported below: 39 Ohio St. 3d 122, 529 N.E. 2d 913.
Rehnquist, Brennan, White, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy
The petition for writ of certiorari is denied.
Disposition
Certiorari denied.
Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall dissenting:
Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.
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