Sproehnle v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• affirming death sentence stating, “[The defendant’s] own admission to the jury reveals that he is totally without remorse. Indeed, his attitude has not changed since the time of trial.”
• noting the absence of mitigating evidence does not preclude or inhibit review
• noting the absence of mitigating evidence does not preclude or inhibit review
• “[o]ur review of the record discloses no evidence that the jury violated the trial court’s instruction to ‘not be influenced by passion [or] prejudice’ ” (alteration in original
• “This argument is nothing more than a request that we overrule Dodd and hold that a competent defendant cannot. .. decide to not present mitigating evidence to the jury.”
• death sentence not disproportionate because defendant's crime resembled, with respect to each ofthe four comparability factors, five crimes for which death sentences had been imposed in the past

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).