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LEADING CASES: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Criminal Law and Procedure: Eighth Amendment - Death Penalty - Consideration of Invalid Sentencing Factors

Harvard law review, 2006-11, Vol.120 (1), p.134 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Cambridge: Harvard Law Review Association

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  • Título:
    LEADING CASES: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Criminal Law and Procedure: Eighth Amendment - Death Penalty - Consideration of Invalid Sentencing Factors
  • Assuntos: Capital punishment ; Constitutional amendments ; Constitutional law ; Criminal law ; Criminal sentences ; Murders & murder attempts ; Studies ; Supreme Court decisions
  • É parte de: Harvard law review, 2006-11, Vol.120 (1), p.134
  • Descrição: Last term, in Brown v. Sanders, the US Supreme Court brought a level of predictability to the weighing-nonweighing distinction by redefining it, holding that a sentencer's consideration of an invalid sentencing factor will not render a capital sentence unconstitutional if the facts and circumstances supporting that factor can be swept in under another valid sentencing factor. But while the court laid down a clear and predictable rule, it neglected to support it with a coherent and stabilizing theory. A California jury found Ronald Sanders guilty of robbery, burglary, and the attempted murder of Dale Boender, and guilty of the first-degree murder of Janice Allen. It also found four "special circumstances" that rendered Sanders eligible for the death penalty under California's capital punishment eligibility statute. The California Supreme Court invalidated two of the four special circumstances that rendered Sanders eligible for death. Nevertheless, finding that invalid factors did not affect the sentencing outcome, the court upheld the conviction. The Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that because under California's omnibus sentencing factor the jury could have properly considered the facts and circumstances underlying the invalidated factors, there was no constitutional defect in the sentencing procedure.
  • Editor: Cambridge: Harvard Law Review Association
  • Idioma: Inglês
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