Supreme Court· 10/21/1985

Aiello v. Massachusetts

Citations

474 U.S. 919
106 S. Ct. 248
54 U.S.L.W. 3271
88 L. Ed. 2d 256
1985 U.S. LEXIS 4098

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defining provocation in part as “sudden transport of passion or heat of blood”
reviewing, after conviction, claims of prejudice, pretrial publicity, and hostility of grand jury
where there is more than one proximate cause, “liability ... [is not required to] be related to any theory of joint liability”
provocation evidence must show that reasonable person “would not have ‘cooled off by the time of the homicide”
availability of unprejudiced petit jury at trial obviates need for appellate review of grand jury

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