LAW 4051 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
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Facts: gardner assaulted his wife with a blunt object, causing her death, convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death by a separate hearing held on the same day. Findings do not indicate that there was anything of special importance in the undisclosed portion (602: sc of florida affirmed the death sentence, without reviewing the confidential parts. Florida law: weigh whether mitigating circumstances outweigh the aggravating, based on that determination, whether defendant gets life or death. Holding (601): we conclude that this procedure does not satisfy the constitutional command that o person shall be deprived of life without due process of law of the 14th amendment.
