Michael Van McDougall v. Gary Dixon

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• holding that a sentencing jury “may not arbitrarily or capriciously impose or reject a sentence of death”
• distinguishing Roberts on the basis that there was evidence upon which a jury could have returned a verdict on the lesser offense and North Carolina did “not have a mandatory death sentence for first degree murder as Louisiana had at the time of Roberts”
• distinguishing Roberts on the basis that there was evidence upon which a jury could have returned a verdict on the lesser offense and North Carolina did \not have a mandatory death sentence for first degree murder as Louisiana had at the time of Roberts \

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