Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Petroleum Refining Co.

How courts have described this case

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• relating to the intoxication defense, use of a mental health expert, and mitigating evidence not introduced
• “The type of after-acquired information that potentially taints a jury verdict should be carefully distinguished from the general knowledge, opinions, feelings and bias that every juror carries into the jury room. ”
• \We assume only for the purpose of this analysis that it could be an error of federal constitutional dimension for the prosecutor to argue that the absence of a mitigating factor can be considered by the jury as an aggravating factor in a capital case.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).