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Supreme Court· 2/20/1996

DiFrisco v. New Jersey

Citations

  • 516 U.S. 1129
  • 133 L. Ed. 2d 873

How courts have described this case

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  • whether the defendant's execution would cause excessive emotional hardship to his mother neither related to the defendant's character or record nor to the circumstances of the offense and rather focused on the potential impact on a third party and was properly excluded
  • affirming defendant’s death sentence on proportionality review
  • affirming defendant's death sentence on proportionality review

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