The Supreme Court declined to intervene Monday in the case of death row inmate Terence...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene Monday in the case of death row inmate Terence Andrus, reversing course after finding just two years ago that a “tidal wave” of evidence raised questions about his sentence.
“That is precisely what this Court permits today,” Sotomayor wrote in a dissent joined by the court’s other two liberal judges, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer. Sotomayor torched that ruling in her dissent, saying the Texas appeals court “unmistakably erred” as it “rejected or ignored this Court’s conclusions.” The court of criminal appeals “declined to account for substantial record evidence that undercut its conclusions and misapplied the relevant legal standards,” she wrote.The Texas court’s opinion “cannot be reconciled with this Court’s prior opinion, let alone with the habeas record,” Sotomayor wrote.
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