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Beck Vs. Alabama
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- US Supreme Court
- Jun 20, 1980
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U.S. 625 (1980) U.S. Supreme Court Beck v. AlabamaSearch
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U.S. 625 (1980) Beck v. AlabamaSearch
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statute was constitutionally indistinguishable from the mandatory death penalty statutes struck down in Woodson v. NorthSearch
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Carolina, 428 U. S. 280 , and Roberts v. LouisianaSearch
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In a brief opinion denying review, the Alabama Supreme Court also rejected petitioner's arguments, citing Jacobs v. StateSearch
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and acquittal. As MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN explained in his opinion Page 447 U. S. 634 for the Court in Keeble v. UnitedSearch
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Keeble v. UnitedSearch
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a reasonable doubt. In support of this theory, the State relies on the historical data described in Woodson v. NorthSearch
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The State's argument is based on a misreading of our cases striking down mandatory death penalties. In Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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decision by making the death penalty automatic on a finding of guilt. But, as the prevailing opinion noted in Woodson v. NorthSearch
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deserves the death penalty, without giving the jury any standards to guide its decision on this issue. In Jacobs v. StateSearch
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jurors would react in the theoretically perfect way the State suggests. As Justice Shores stated in dissent in Jacobs v. StateSearch
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In Ritter v. StateSearch
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has been consistently construed to preclude any lesser included offense instructions in capital cases. See Jacobs v. StateSearch
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Evans v. BirttonSearch
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Fulghum v. StateSearch
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agreement, we should not simply brush aside the Alabama Attorney General's view of his own State's law. Cf. Chambers v. MississippiSearch
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true in a case such as this, where the death penalty was imposed in a plainly unconstitutional manner. Cf. Vachon v. NewSearch
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So.2d at 1000. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals relied on Jacobs v. StateSearch
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helped to save the statute from being an unconstitutional mandatory death penalty. He noted that, in Roberts v. LouisianaSearch
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post- Furman death penalty statute also contained a prohibition on charging lesser included offenses. In Jackson v. StateSearch
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This principle was first announced in Stevenson v. UnitedSearch
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Berra v. UnitedSearch
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no doubt be entitled to an instruction which would permit a finding of guilt of the lesser offense. See Stevenson v. UnitedSearch
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a right to a requested lesser included offense instruction if the evidence warrants it. See, e.g., United States v. ScharfSearch
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included offense instruction, they agree that it must be given when supported by the evidence. See, e.g., Christie v. StateSearch
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