United States Second Circuit

Because the District Court's order clearly declared the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 (capital punishment) unconstitutional per se, and did not focus on any particular statute within the FDPA, defendant's petition for rehearing is denied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/06/2003
• Published 02/06/2003

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:, Before: WINTER, McLAUGHLIN, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Meir Feder, Assistant United States Attorney (David B. Anders and David Rody, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for James B. Comey, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellant., Barry C. Scheck, Innocence Project, Cardozo School of Law (Joshua L. Dratel, Peter Neufeld, on the brief), New York, NY, for Innocence Project, the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, and New York Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amicus Curiae., Christopher Dunn, Arthur Eisenberg, and Donna Lieberman, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY;  Diann Rust-Tierney, American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project, Washington, DC;  and Ursula Bentele, Brooklyn, NY, for New York Civil Liberties Union and American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Samuel R. Gross, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI (Don D. Buchwald, Buchwald & Kaufman, New York, NY;  Lee Ginsberg, Freeman, Nooter & Ginsberg, New York, NY;  Jean Barrett, Ruhnke & Barrett, Montclair, NJ;  Kevin McNally, Frankfort, KY;  Avraham Moskowitz, Moskowitz & Book, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.