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Supreme Court· 1/11/2006

Brown v. Sanders

Citations

  • 546 U.S. 212
  • 126 S. Ct. 884
  • 163 L. Ed. 2d 723
  • 2006 U.S. LEXIS 760

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that jury’s consideration of invalid sentencing factor will not render sentence unconstitutional if jurors may “give aggravating weight to the same facts and circumstances” in connection with other valid sentencing factors
  • stating that due process requires reversal of death sentence if invalid sentencing factor allowed sentence!’ to consider evidence that otherwise would not have been before it
  • noting constitutional error arises only where the jury could not have given aggravating weight to the same facts and circumstances under some other sentencing factor
  • noting constitutional error arises only where the jury could not have given aggravating weight to the same facts and circumstances under some other sentencing factor
  • explaining that weighing an improper aggravating factor will “give rise to constitutional error[] only where the jury could not have given aggravating weight to the same facts and circumstances under the rubric of some other, valid sentencing factor”
  • explaining that, in capital cases, the consideration of sentencing factors that are improper under state law is constitutional error, but holding that such error is harmless if the federal court determines that other, proper factors allow consideration of \the same facts and circumstances\

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Judges: Scalia, Roberts, O'Connor, Kennedy, Thomas, Stevens, Souter, Breyer, Ginsburg

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