Harry Blackmun: Dissent in Callins v. Collins

Glossary

• appellant a party appealing a decision by a lower court
• coddle humor or permit in a condescending way, as one might treat a child
• eviscerated robbed of essential parts
• mitigating making less bad; opposite of aggravating
• petitioner a person who brings a case, or petition, before a court
• substantive relating to the methods by which the facts, or substance, will be reviewed in a trial