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Parker Vs. Dugger

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1991

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  1. Eddings Vs. Oklahoma US Supreme Court · Jan 19, 1982
  2. Lockett Vs. Ohio US Supreme Court · Jul 03, 1978
  3. Gregg Vs. Georgia US Supreme Court · Jul 02, 1976
  4. Barclay Vs. Florida US Supreme Court · Jul 06, 1983
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  5. Pulley Vs. Harris US Supreme Court · Jan 23, 1984
  6. Clemons Vs. Mississippi US Supreme Court · Mar 28, 1990
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  7. U.S. 308 (1991) U.S. Supreme Court Parker v. Dugger
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  8. U.S. 308 (1991) Parker v. Dugger
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  9. may, consistent with the Constitution, reweigh the remaining evidence or conduct a harmless error analysis. Clemons v. Mississippi
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  10. give deference to a state appellate court's resolution of an ambiguity in a state trial court's statement, Wainwright v. Goode
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  11. Id. at 61. On direct appeal, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed Parker's convictions and sentences. Parker v. State
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  12. suggesting the sentence of death are so clear and convincing that virtually no reasonable person could differ. Tedder v. State
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  13. Tedder v. State
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  14. have failed even to consider nonstatutory mitigating circumstances, thereby violating the rule of Hitchcock v. Dugger
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  15. Both may consider only those aggravating circumstances described by statute. McCampbell v. State
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  16. they may consider any mitigating evidence, whether or not it goes to a statutory mitigating circumstance. Jacobs v. State
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  17. Songer v. State
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  18. Florida Supreme Court had in other cases found sufficient to preclude a jury override. See, for example, Norris v. State
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  19. Buckrem v. State
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  20. Malloy v. State
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  21. Florida case law at the time the trial judge entered Parker's sentencing order required no more. See Mason v. State
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  22. evaluate in its sentencing order each nonstatutory mitigating circumstance proposed by the defendant. See Campbell v. State
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  23. several occasions that it does not reweigh the evidence of aggravating and mitigating circumstances. See, e.g., Hudson v. State
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  24. Brown v. Wainwright
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  25. in which it had struck aggravating circumstances and the trial judge had found no mitigating circumstances. See Sireci v. State
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  26. Elledge v. State
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  27. Moody v. State
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  28. circumstances, and affirm the sentence based on a mischaracterization of the trial judge's findings. In Wainwright v. Goode
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  29. afforded by such review in jury override cases. Dobbert v. Florida
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  30. U. S. 282 , 432 U. S. 295 (1977). See also Proffitt v. Florida
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  31. U. S. 879 (1983). See also Clemons, supra, 494 U.S. at 494 U. S. 749 , 494 U. S. 752 Barclay v. Florida
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  32. circumstances and the Florida Supreme Court had relied on that finding, our review would be very different. Cf. Lewis v. Jeffers
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  33. to state courts that are attempting to apply their own law faithfully and responsibly. For example, in Wainwright v. Goode
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  34. mitigating circumstances had been established. Page 498 U. S. 326 Our recent decision in Lewis v. Jeffers
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  35. U. S. 783 . It is axiomatic that, in general, mere errors of state law are not the concern of this Court, Gryger v. Burke
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  36. Cf. Hitchcock v. Dugger
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  37. Page 498 U. S. 328 Walton v. Arizona
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  38. try -- cannot plausibly escape the fact that the statement is ambiguous. Accordingly, as noted above, under Wainwright v. Goode
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  39. be deferred to, then that court's action in affirming Parker's death sentence comports with our cases, see Barclay v. Florida
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  40. U. S. 939 , 463 U. S. 955 (1983), and there is no Clemons v. Mississippi
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  41. U.S. Supreme Court Parker v. Dugger
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  42. Wainwright v. Goode
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  43. Parker v. State
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  44. of Hitchcock v. Dugger
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  45. McCampbell v. State
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  46. Jacobs v. State
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  47. Norris v. State
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  48. See Mason v. State
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  49. See Campbell v. State
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  50. Hudson v. State
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