Bobby Joe Morris v. State of Iowa

How courts have described this case

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• observing that Milke approved the use of the parent-child relationship “in partial support of a finding of heinousness or depravity”
• noting that a defendant “must show that the jurors have formed preconceived notions concerning [her] guilt and that they cannot lay those notions aside”
• “Ari-zona’s right to an impartial jury is no broader than the Sixth Amendment”
• “Arizona’s right to an impartial jury is no broader than the Sixth Amendment.”
• “The parent/child relationship is a circumstance that separates infanticide from the ‘norm’ of first-degree murders. The use of that relationship in partial support of a finding of heinousness and depravity is constitutionally permissible.” (alterations omitted
• focusing on medical condition of victim chosen by defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).