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3.556 documents for aggravating circumstances meaning

- Bell v. Cone, 543 U.S. ___ (2005)
... heinous, atrocious, or cruel" aggravating circumstance found by the jury at the sentencing p... unanimously found four aggravating circumstances1 and concluded that they outweighed the mitigating ... proof that it could be applied meaningfully to narrow the class of death-eligible offenders. L...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Brown, Warden v. Sanders, 546 U. S. (2006)
..., the jury found four "special circumstances," each of which rendered him death eligible under ... channel this function by specifying aggravating factors (sometimes identical to the eligibility fa...What meaningful difference is there between these two statements? ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Eighth Amendment: Further Guarantees In Criminal Cases
... centuries of struggle, would lose its meaning." "The bail clause was lifted with slight changes... in order to weigh the mitigating circumstances of individual defendants who fall within the death... framework for consideration of aggravating and mitigating circumstances and the appropriate s...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)

- Barclay v. Florida, 463 U.S. 939 (1983)
..., including findings of the statutory aggravating circumstances that petitioner had knowingly create... of judges and juries to play a meaningful role in sentencing. Pp. 948-951. 2. Although unde...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Lessons Learned From Recent OFAC Enforcement Cases.
... were not "self-disclosed" within the meaning of the Guidelines because Credit Suisse did not co...Aggravating circumstances partially offset Barclays' mitigatio...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Nbr. 2011, January 2011
- USA v. Felipe Esparza-Perez, (5th Cir. 2012)
... for a crime of violence within the meaning of section 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the United States... assault if, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the ... an assault carried out under certain aggravating circumstances. See Fierro-Reyna, 466 F.3d at 328 (...
- Federal Circuits
- Timothy Hoffner v. Margaret Bradshaw, (6th Cir. 2010)
... the trial court improperly weighed aggravating and mitigating circumstances, that he received i... the prosecution's penalty case to meaningful adversarial testing" in violation of his Sixth Ame...
- Federal Circuits
- Smith v. Spisak, 558 U. S. (2010)
... to find unanimously that each of the aggravating factors outweighed any mitigating circumstances, b...�making some derisive remarks about us,” meaning the Nazi Party. Id., at 1432–1435. Later that Au...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. (2011)
... the prosecution planned to offer aggravating evidenceduring the penalty phase of trial to suppo...8). In these circumstances, Pinholster can satisfy the"unreasonable appli... of §2254(d)(1) fails to give meaning to Congress' decision to include language referrin...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002)
... of statutorily enumerated "aggravating circumstances" and any "mitigating circumstances."..., Apprendi would be reduced to a "meaningless and formalistic" rule of statutory drafting. See ...
- U.S. Supreme Court