Vander Zyl v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that the issue of probable cause to arrest the defendant was waived because it was not included in a pretrial motion to suppress as a basis for suppressing evidence
• “If aggravation and mitigation are in equipoise, the jury must recommend a sentence of life imprisonment”
• “If aggravation and mitigation are in equipoise, the jury must recommend a sentence of life imprisonment”
• prospective juror who exhibited \considerable emotional difficulty\ with death penalty on voir dire was properly removed for cause
• “once lawfully inserted into the sentencing considerations, such information is subject to fair comment by both parties”
• “Absent objection, the error will not affect the sentence unless it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the result would have been otherwise without the error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).