James Dyral Briley v. Gary L. Bass, Warden

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a specific method of balancing aggravating against mitigating circumstances is not constitutionally required
• finding that it would be inappropriate for a federal court to upset a sentence where the jury was permitted to consider all relevant mitigating evidence
• “The constitutionality of [Virginia’s future dangerousness aggravator] is beyond question” in light of Jurek
• little weight attached to juror’s response to exaggerated hypothetical situation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).