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· 10/1/2001

Martinez-Silva v. United States

Citations

  • 534 U.S. 897
  • 122 S. Ct. 220

How courts have described this case

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  • where defendant states witness elimination is motive for murder; where murder victim is witness to other crime and killed to prevent that person from testifying; where extraordinary circumstances exist
  • no double counting where defendant, following bank robbery, shot at an officer, engaged the police in a high speed chase through a populated area, and instigated a shootout in a McDonald’s parking lot

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