(Download) "Smith v. North Carolina Williams v. North Carolina and Pinch v. North Carolina." by Supreme Court of the United States # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Smith v. North Carolina Williams v. North Carolina and Pinch v. North Carolina.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 29, 1982
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 82 KB
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In each of these three capital cases the trial judge instructed the jury that it had a duty to impose the death penalty if it found: (1) that one or more aggravating circumstances existed; (2) that the aggravating circumstances were sufficiently substantial to call for the death penalty; and (3) that the aggravating circumstances outweighted the mitigating circumstances. There is an ambiguity in these instructions that any raise a serious question of compliance with this Courts holding in Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586 (1978).