United States v. Dustin John Higgs

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• holding that argument about what defendant's life in prison would be like was not improper, in part because argument responded to defense claims about prison life
• concluding that evidence that defendant instructed witnesses to lie was not unfairly prejudicial in capital sentencing proceeding
• holding that Government was entitled to present rebuttal evidence of accused’s disciplinary infractions where accused presented testimony that he was avoiding trouble in prison
• holding that argument about what defendant’s life in prison would be like was not improper, in part because argument responded to defense claims about prison life
• holding that \the jury is empowered to show mercy to reject a death sentence\
• holding that a conviction must be sustained if there is \‘evidence that a reasonable finder of fact could accept as adequate and sufficient to support a conclusion of a defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt\

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