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Subject: Plea Bargaining
Content: Upheld the validity and practice of plea bargaining |
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Subject: Plea bargaining
Content: Defendant must uphold the tenets of the plea agreement or will face consequences |
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Subject: Plea Bargaining
Content: Defendants must state that they are voluntarily making a plea of guilty before the judge can accept the plea |
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Subject: Jury Selection
Content: Prevents dismissal (peremptory challenge) of potential jurors based solely on race |
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Subject: Plea Bargaining
Content: A plea of guilty by a defendant who maintains his or her innocence may be accepted for the purpose of a lesser sentence |
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Date: 1972
Subject: Death Penalty
Content: The death penalty, as administered, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. |
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Date: 1976
Subject: Death Penalty
Content: death penalty laws are constitutional; death is not an inappropriate sentence in all situations |
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Subject: Death Penalty
Content: Execution of the mentally retarded is unconstitutional |
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Subject: Death Penalty
Content: The 8th amendment (protection from cruel and unusual punishment) prohibits the execution of the insane |
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Subject: Death Penalty
Content: Execution of those under 18 at time of the offense is unconstitutional |
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Subject: Death Penalty
Content: Juries must decide whether or not a convicted person will receive the death penalty |
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Subject: Capital Defense
Content: Defendants in capital cases have the right to representation that meets an OBJECTIVE standard of reason |
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Subject: Death Penalty
Content: potential jurors who have general objections to the death penalty cannot be automatically excluded from capital cases - a Juror must state that views prevent or substantially impair performance of duties as a juror |
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Subject: Death Penalty
Content: Found that pain is not a factor in determining whether punishment is "cruel and unusual;" upholds state's right to lethally inject |
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