Lockett v. Workman

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• holding that an analogous Apprendi claim was \foreclosed by our decision ... in ... Matthews \
• holding that petitioner had waived an issue on appeal because he failed to raise it in his opening brief
• holding that error was harmless even though defendant had been absent for individual voir dire of 19 jurors where defendant was present for majority of voir dire and defendant did not offer explanation of why his presence was necessary
• considering the error to be harmless when the family’s requests for death consisted of “a single, concise sentence”
• evaluating harmlessness of improper victim impact statement in part based on its emotional impact on the jury in the context of other emotional evidence and testimony
• finding error harmless where jury was correctly instructed that 15 its sentencing decision was “limited to a moral inquiry into the culpability of the defendant, 16 not an emotional response to the evidence”

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