Sochor v. Florida, No. 91-5843 (U.S. Supreme Court) (504 U.S. 527; 112 S.Ct. 2114) (June 8, 1992) (Justice Souter)
Here a typically divided Supreme Court addressed two different claims by a capital defendant, and although the case was remanded, it is hard to draw any concrete conclusions from the many different opinions.
In this case the trial court had instructed a capital jury on four aggravating factors, one of ...
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