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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | PENRY v. JOHNSON |
| Date: | 06/04/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-6677 |
| Summary: | Where defendant has offered extensive evidence that he was mentally retarded and had been severely abused as a child, the jury may consider and give mitigating effect to that evidence in imposing sentence. |