Barclay v. Florida, No. 81-6908 (U.S. Supreme Court) (463 U.S. 939; 103 S.Ct. 3418) (July 6, 1983) (Justice Rehnquist)
The central question in this case is whether Florida may constitutionally impose the death penalty on petitioner Elwood Barclay when one of the "aggravating circumstances" relied upon by the trial judge to support the sentence was not among those established by the Florida death penalty statute. A plurality of the ...
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