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Mcgautha Vs. California

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 03, 1971

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  1. Specht Vs. Patterson US Supreme Court · Apr 11, 1967
  2. Mcmann Vs. Richardson US Supreme Court · May 04, 1970
  3. Trop Vs. Dulles US Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1958
  4. Palko Vs. Connecticut US Supreme Court · Dec 06, 1937
  5. Townsend Vs. Burke US Supreme Court · Jun 14, 1948
  6. Maxwell Vs. Bishop US Supreme Court · Jun 01, 1970
  7. U.S. 183 (1971) U.S. Supreme Court McGautha v. California
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  8. U.S. 183 (1971) McGautha v. California
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  9. silent on the issue of guilt at the cost of surrendering his chance to plead his case on the punishment issue. Simmons v. United
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  10. Andres v. United
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  11. Stat. 487. Shortly thereafter, in Winston v. United
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  12. had occasion to pass on the correctness of instructions to the jury with respect to recommendations of mercy in Andres v. United
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  13. other significant discussion of standardless jury sentencing in capital cases in our decisions is found in Witherspoon v. Illinois
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  14. n. 15. The inner quotation is from the opinion of Mr. Chief Justice Warren for four members of the Court in Trop v. Dulles
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  15. it requires a strong showing to upset this settled practice of the Nation on constitutional grounds. See Walz v. Tax
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  16. Jackman v. Rosenbaum
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  17. Palko v. Connecticut
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  18. have not only failed to provide a rational basis for distinguishing the one group from the other, cf. Skinner v. Oklahoma
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  19. has twice had occasion to rule on separate penalty proceedings in the context of a capital case. In United States v. Jackson
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  20. required in capital cases. Substantially this result had been sought by the petitioners in Spencer v. Texas
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  21. a significant guide to decision here. A Crampton's argument for bifurcation runs as follows. Under Malloy v. Hogan
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  22. U. S. 1 (1964), and Griffin v. California
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  23. He contends that, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as elaborated in, e.g., Townsend v. Burke
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  24. and Mempa v. Rhay
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  25. of all the relevant evidence. Therefore, he argues, the Ohio procedure possesses the flaw we condemned in Simmons v. United
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  26. Brady v. United
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  27. Parker v. North
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  28. as to which course to follow. McMann v. Richardson
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  29. it be successfully, that the mere force of evidence is compulsion of the sort forbidden by the privilege. See Williams v. Florida
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  30. in his own behalf may open the door to otherwise inadmissible evidence which is damaging to his case. See Spencer v. Texas
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  31. Michelson v. United
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  32. behind the privilege are varied, and not all are implicated in any given application of the privilege. See Murphy v. Waterfront
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  33. Murphy v. Waterfront
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  34. cross-examination on matters reasonably related to the subject matter of his direct examination. See, e.g., Brown v. Walker
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  35. Fitzpatrick v. United
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  36. Brown v. United
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  37. who takes the stand in his own behalf may be impeached by proof of prior convictions or the like. See Spencer v. Texas
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  38. Luck v. United
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  39. United States v. Palumbo
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  40. the Government case enough for it to support a verdict of guilty. Page 402 U. S. 216 E.g., United States v. Calderon
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  41. Cephus v. United
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  42. States, 117 U.S.App.D.C. 15, 324 F.2d 893 (1963). Finally, only last Term, in Williams v. Florida
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  43. Page 402 U. S. 217 we have described. While we recognize the truth of Mr. Justice Frankfurter's insight in Green v. United
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  44. fact that capital, as opposed to any other, sentencing is in issue seem to us to distinguish this case. See Williams v. New
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  45. to be sure for purposes not wholly unrelated to those served by the right of allocution in former times, see Green v. United
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  46. guarantees defendants the right to have their counsel argue in summation for mercy, as well as for acquittal. Shelton v. State
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  47. extent to which evidence going solely to the issue of punishment is admissible under Ohio law is unclear, see Ashrook v. State
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  48. such personal participation in the criminal process is not necessarily a constitutional flaw in the conviction. Hill v. United
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  49. from any adverse consequences on the issue of guilt. We therefore reject this branch of petitioner's argument as well. v. Before
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  50. of criminology, or even those that measure up to the individual predilections of members of this Court. See Spencer v. Texas
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