Supreme Court· 4/8/1968

United States v. Jackson

Citations

390 U.S. 570
88 S. Ct. 1209
20 L. Ed. 2d 138
1968 U.S. LEXIS 2002

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holding that criminal statute which conditioned unavailability of the death penalty for kidnapping on the defendant's abandonment of right to jury trial was unconstitutional
holding that practice which discourages exercise of Fifth or Sixth Amendment rights by penalizing through enhanced sentencing the exercise of those rights is unconstitutional
noting that the ultimate determination of severability will rarely turn on the presence or absence of a severability clause
finding that an impermissible burden existed where law had the effect of discouraging the exercise of Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights
holding the death penalty clause of the Federal Kidnapping Act imposes an impermissible burden upon the exercise of a defendant’s right to a jury trial
holding unconstitutional the federal Kidnaping Act (18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)) because it provided the death penalty for a conviction after a plea of not guilty, and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment after a guilty plea

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Judges: Stewart, White, Marshall, Black

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