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KEENEY v. TAMAYO-REYES

No. 90-1859.

504 U.S. 1 (1992)

KEENEY, SUPERINTENDENT, OREGON STATE PENITENTIARY v. TAMAYO-REYES

United States Supreme Court.

Decided May 4, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack L. Landau, Deputy Attorney General of Oregon, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Charles S. Crookham, Attorney General, Dave Frohnmayer, Former Attorney General, Virginia L. Linder, Solicitor General, and Brenda J. Peterson and Rives Kistler, Assistant Attorneys General.

Steven T. Wax argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.*

White, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Scalia, Souter, and Thomas, JJ., joined. O'Connor, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Blackmun, Stevens, and Kennedy, JJ., joined, p. 12. Kennedy, J., filed a dissenting opinion, p. 24.

Justice White, delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondent is a Cuban immigrant with little education and almost no knowledge of English. In 1984, he was charged with murder arising from the stabbing death of a man who had allegedly attempted to intervene in a confrontation between respondent and his girlfriend in a bar.

Respondent was provided with a defense attorney and interpreter. The attorney recommended to...

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