Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Sentencing : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | Kansas v. Marsh |
| Date: | 06/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1170 |
| Summary: | Kansas' capital sentencing statute, which requires the imposition of the death penalty when the sentencing jury determines that aggravating evidence and mitigating evidence are in equipoise, is constitutional. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | Washington v. Recuenco |
| Date: | 06/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–83 |
| Summary: | In the context of criminal sentencing, failure to submit a sentencing factor to the jury is not structural error. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing |
| Title: | Hill v. McDonough |
| Date: | 06/12/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–8794 |
| Summary: | Dismissal of petitioner's challenge to the constitutionality of a three-drug sequence the state of Florida likely would use to execute him by lethal injection is reversed as his claim did not have to be brought as an action for a writ of habeas corpus, but instead could proceed as an action for relief under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 in accordance with Nelson v. Campbell. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing |
| Title: | House v. Bell |
| Date: | 06/12/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–8990 |
| Summary: | Denial of habeas relief for petitioner in a death penalty murder case pursuant to a finding that his claims were procedurally defaulted is reversed where defendant made the stringent showing required by the actual-innocence exception to procedural default, and defendant's federal habeas action could proceed. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Per Curiam, Sentencing |
| Title: | Salinas v. United States |
| Date: | 04/24/06 |
| Case Number: | 05-8400 |
| Summary: | Judgment of the Fifth Circuit is vacated and remanded where the court erred in treating a prior conviction for simple possession as a "controlled substance offense" for sentencing guideline purposes, since that term requires elements other than simple possession. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing |
| Title: | Oregon v. Guzek |
| Date: | 02/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–928 |
| Summary: | The Constitution does not prohibit a state from limiting the innocence-related evidence a capital defendant can introduce at a sentencing proceeding to the evidence introduced at the original trial. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing |
| Title: | Brown v. Sanders |
| Date: | 01/11/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–980 |
| Summary: | With regards to the imposition of a death sentence, an invalidated sentencing factor, whether an eligibility factor or not, will render a sentence unconstitutional by reason of its adding an improper element to the aggravation scale in the weighing process, unless one of the other sentencing factors enables the sentencer to give aggravating weight to the same facts and circumstances. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Per Curiam, Sentencing |
| Title: | Schriro v. Smith |
| Date: | 10/17/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-1475 |
| Summary: | The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals exceeded its limited authority on habeas review when it commanded the Arizona courts to conduct a jury trial to resolve defendant-death row inmate's mental retardation claim. |