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Confronting Death: Sixth Amendment Rights At Capital Sentencing, John G. Douglass
Confronting Death: Sixth Amendment Rights At Capital Sentencing, John G. Douglass
Law Faculty Publications
The Court's fragmentary approach has taken pieces of the Sixth Amendment and applied them to pieces of the capital sentencing process. The author contends that the whole of the Sixth Amendment applies to the whole of a capital case, whether the issue is guilt, death eligibility, or the final selection of who lives and who dies. In capital cases, there is one Sixth Amendment world, not two. In this Article, he argues for a unified theory of Sixth Amendment rights to govern the whole of a capital case. Because both Williams and the Apprendi-Ring-Booker line of cases purport to rest …
The Negative Effects Of Capital Jury Selection, Andrea Lyon
The Negative Effects Of Capital Jury Selection, Andrea Lyon
Law Faculty Publications
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