Shafer v. South Carolina, No. 00-5250 (U.S. Supreme Court) (532 U.S. 36; 121 S.Ct. 1263) (March 20, 2001) (Justice Ginsburg)
Loaded on Feb. 1, 2001
published in Punch and Jurists
February 26, 2001
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Here the Court reversed a death sentence, holding that a trial court’s refusal to clarify to the jurors that a life sentence meant that the defendant was ineligible for parole constituted a denial of the defendant’s due process rights.
Back in 1994 the Supreme Court struck down a …
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