Supreme Court· 1/27/1987

California v. Brown

Citations

479 U.S. 538
107 S. Ct. 837
93 L. Ed. 2d 934
1987 U.S. LEXIS 420
55 U.S.L.W. 4155

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holding that a reasonable juror would interpret anti-sympathy instruction in a way that permitted him to consider all the evidence presented
holding that it is what a reasonable juror could have understood that is important
holding that it is what a reasonable juror could have understood that is important
holding that the decision to impose the death penalty should not be based on “extraneous emotional factors” such as “mere sympathy” that are unrelated to the particular aggravating and mitigating factors at issue in the case
noting that mitigation evidence “affords an opportunity to humanize and explain- to individualize a defendant outside the constraints of the normal rules of evidence”
stating that mitigation evidence \affords an opportunity to humanize and explain--to individualize a defendant outside the constraints of the normal rules of evidence\

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Judges: Rehnquist, White, Powell, O'Connor, Scalia, Brennan, Marshall, Ste, Blackmun

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