Jury Nullification - Judgments

Jul 02 1976 (FN)

Roberts Vs. Louisiana

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jul-02-1976

..... draws such an inference even though there is no more reason to infer that jury nullification occurred because of opposition to the death penalty in particular cases than because one ..... does not conclude that the death penalty was itself placed beyond legislative resuscitation either by jury nullification under mandatory statutes or by the erosion of the death penalty under the discretionary .....

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Jul 02 1976 (FN)

Woodson Vs. North Carolina

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jul-02-1976

..... some instances are weak the uniformity of the conclusions in substantiating what these authors termed jury nullification i e refusal to convict because of the required penalty is impressive authors on ..... being imposed to conclude that the north carolina system is bad because juror nullification may permit jury discretion while concluding that the georgia and florida systems are sound because they .....

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Jun 29 1972 (FN)

Furman Vs. Georgia

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-29-1972

..... capital offense id at 402 u s 199 in order to meet the problem of jury nullification legislatures did not try as before to refine further the definition of capital homicides instead ..... to convict of the capital offense id at 402 u s 199 the phenomenon of jury nullification thus remained to counteract the rigors of mandatory death sentences bowing to reality legislatures did .....

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Jun 22 1987 (FN)

Sumner Vs. Nevada Dept. of Prisons

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-22-1987

..... 13 elimination of the mandatory sentencing procedure also eliminates the problem of the possibility of jury nullification which has been known to arise under mandatory schemes see woodson v north carolina ..... included offense the situation presented by a life term inmate may present another jury nullification problem if the jury believes that the only manner of punishing a life term inmate would be .....

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Feb 20 2013 (FN)

Johnson Vs. Williams

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Feb-20-2013

..... foreman testified that juror 6 had brought up past instances of jury nullification the foreman also expressed doubt about whether juror 6 was willing ..... 6 who first denied and then admitted bringing up instances of nullification juror 6 also testified that this was a serious case ..... not because he was failing to deliberate or engaging in juror nullification people v taylor no b137365 jan 18 2002 app to .....

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Jul 02 1976 (FN)

Gregg Vs. Georgia

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jul-02-1976

..... entered or a new trial ordered since the discretionary act of jury nullification would not be permitted finally acts of executive clemency would ..... a case in georgia the problem of offense definition and jury nullification loses virtually all its significance in this case footnote 2 ..... impose the death penalty when in cases tried by a jury the jury cannot agree upon the punishment if the trial court is .....

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Oct 14 1992 (FN)

Graham Vs. Collins

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Oct-14-1992

..... suggested that such statutes simply papered over the problem of unguided and unchecked jury discretion by provoking arbitrary jury nullification id at 302 303 thus i nstead of rationalizing the sentencing process ..... that the plurality in woodson and roberts erred in equating the raw power of jury nullification with the unlimited sentencing discretion condemned in furman roberts supra at 347 white j .....

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Jun 24 1993 (FN)

Johnson Vs. Texas

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-24-1993

..... mitigating circumstances would result in the arbitrary and capricious jury nullification that prevailed prior to furman see woodson 428 u ..... argued for the constitutional right to an instruction on jury nullification see id at 377 we also addressed and rejected ..... hitchcock v dugger supra holding it unconstitutional to restrict jury s consideration of mitigating factors to those enumerated in .....

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Jul 02 1982 (FN)

Enmund Vs. Florida

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jul-02-1982

..... best however for it is unclear what fraction of the jury nullification in this country resulted from dissatisfaction with the capital ..... y laws ch 67 footnote 2 32 the extent of jury nullification and the nearly complete repudiation of mandatory death penalty ..... decency respecting the imposition of punishment in our society jury determinations and legislative enactments both point conclusively to the .....

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Mar 02 1993 (FN)

Gilmore Vs. Taylor

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Mar-02-1993

..... choose to extend beck and its presumption of jury nullification to the noncapital defendant has no bearing on the ..... claim that he was only guilty of voluntary manslaughter the jury received instructions modeled after the state pattern instructions on ..... were modeled after and virtually identical to the illinois pattern jury instructions on murder and voluntary manslaughter which were formally adopted .....

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