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· 11/7/1994

Collins v. Stanislaus County Department of Social Services

Citations

  • 513 U.S. 990
  • 115 S. Ct. 488

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • Mississippi's failure to set minimum age for imposition of death penalty does not make it unconstitutional to execute defendant who committed capital murder when seventeen years old
  • a moment of silence at the beginning of a capital-murder defendant's trial in honor of the troops serving in the Persian Gulf did not violate the First Amendment
  • Mississippi’s failure to set minimum age for imposition of death penalty does not make it unconstitutional to execute defendant who committed capital murder when seventeen years old

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