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McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 (2018), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the Sixth Amendment guarantees a defendant the right to decide that the objective of his defense is to maintain innocence at all costs, even when counsel believes that admitting guilt offers the defendant the best chance to avoid the death penalty.
After suffering a trial court conviction of second-degree murder for the bludgeoning death of his pregnant wife, Sheppard challenged the verdict as the product of an unfair trial. Sheppard, who maintained his innocence of the crime, alleged that the trial judge failed to protect him "from the massive, widespread and prejudicial publicity that ...
Snyder v. Louisiana, 552 U.S. 472 (2008), was a United States Supreme Court case about racial issues in jury selection in death penalty cases. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the 7–2 majority, ruled that the prosecutor's use of peremptory strikes to remove African American jurors violated the Court's earlier holding in Batson v.
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict. Holding; The Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial—as incorporated against the States by way of the Fourteenth Amendment—requires a unanimous verdict to convict a defendant of a serious offense. Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit ...
Government’s theory of the case: Solving a problem with murder Lawyers wrapped up jury selection at around 7 p.m. Thursday, landing on a group of 12 jurors and four alternates made up of three ...
The medical examiner attributed his cause of death to blunt force trauma to the head and hypothermia, and Read was later charged with second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter and other crimes ...
Hurst v. Florida, 577 U.S. 92 (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court, in an 8–1 ruling, applied the rule of Ring v. Arizona [1] to the Florida capital sentencing scheme, holding that the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to find the aggravating factors necessary for imposing the death penalty.
Friday, Oct. 25:Delphi trial jurors hear from expert who tied Allen's gun to unspent round at crime scene Thursday, Oct. 24: Richard Allen was not on Delphi investigators' radar. Then a volunteer ...