Mills v. Maryland, No. 87-5367 (U.S. Supreme Court) (486 U.S. 367; 108 S.Ct. 1860) (June 6, 1988) (Justice Blackmun)

Loaded on Jan. 18, 2003

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In this capital case, petitioner, a Maryland prison inmate, was tried by a state-court jury and convicted of the first-degree murder of his cellmate. In the trial's sentencing phase, the same jury found that the State had established the statutory aggravating factor that petitioner committed the murder while he …

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