Supreme Court· 1/19/1982

Eddings v. Oklahoma

Citations

455 U.S. 104
102 S. Ct. 869
71 L. Ed. 2d 1
1982 U.S. LEXIS 15
50 U.S.L.W. 4161

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Eddings v. Oklahoma — U.S. Supreme Court case. This entry links to the full opinion in the CourtListener corpus.

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holding that state courts can’t limit mitigating evidence to only those acts that excuse the defendant’s criminal acts
noting that consideration of the offender's life history is a \`part of the process of inflicting the penalty of death'\
holding that the sentencing judge erroneously failed to consider evidence of mitigation
holding death sentence invalid where sentencing judge failed to consider evidence of young defendant’s family troubles
recognizingyouth as a “time and condition of life when a person may be most susceptible to influence and to psychological damage”
holding a capital sentencer may not give relevant mitigation evidence “no weight by excluding such evidence from ... consideration”

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Judges: Powell, Brennan, Marshall, Stevens, O'Connor, Burger, White, Blackmun, Rehnquist

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