TAWANDA PRICE-LAWRENCE v. PHILLIP LAWRENCE, JR.

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• holding that admission of recorded recollection under Federal Rule of Evidence 803(5) does not violate the right of con frontation
• holding that the Eighth Amendment does not require codefendants’ sentences to be proportional to one another
• holding that the admission of unadjudicated offenses at a capital sentencing proceeding does not violate due process
• holding no equal protection violation in denying defendant appointment of co-counsel in a capital offense prosecution, even though a co-defendant was appointed co-counsel
• holding petitioner could not claim prejudice from original attorney’s failure to file application for post-conviction relief when error was cured by second attorney and state court considered issues
• noting that although the Court has subsequently called into doubt some of the logic of Williams, the Court has not called into doubt the essence of its holding that unadjudicated crimes may constitutionally be considered in imposing a death sentence

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