Lockett v Ohio

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Type: Case

Citation: (1978) 438 US 586

Summary: Imposition of death penalty under Ohio statute requiring death sentence for conviction of aggravated murder unless having regard to certain matters sentencing judge determined at least one of specified circumstances established — Statute unconstitutional because it limited range of mitigating circumstances sentencer might consider and US Constitution 8th and 14th Amendments infringed

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Court: Court of Appeals of Summit County, Ohio

Jurisdiction: US

Date 1978