Donald Henry Gaskins v. Kenneth D. McKellar Warden, Central Correctional Institution Attorney General of South Carolina, T. Travis Medlock

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• holding that \it is inconceivable that the disputed instruction could have caused the jurors unanimously to impose a death sentence out of fear of mistrial should they not be unanimous in their decision to impose life imprisonment\
• finding no prosecutorial misconduct in saying the Govern- ment's evidence was undisputed because defendant could have con- tradicted that evidence without testifying
• explaining that \`[a]ny claim that the jury was not impartial ... must focus ... on the jurors who actually sat' and cannot be estab- lished simply by showing the loss of a peremptory challenge\ (second & third alterations in original) (quoting Ross, 487 U.S. at 86)
• prosecutor's comment that defendant had shown no remorse was not improper comment on failure to testify

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