Life-and-Death Decisions: State, U.S. Courts at Odds on Sentences. / Howard Mintz.
by Mintz, Howard; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 71Institutions. Publisher: Knight-Ridder (1999-June 2002), 2002ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Appellate procedure | Capital punishment | Criminal justice -- Administration of | Federal courts | Reversal (Law) | State courts | CaliforniaDDC classification: 050 Summary: "When it comes to death sentences, the California Supreme Court and federal courts seldom agree. The state's highest court upholds them. Federal judges overturn them." (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) The author maintains that "federal judges and the state Supreme Court have developed very different legal standards for evaluating death sentences--such different standards that nowhere in the country is there a more pronounced divide in the way a state high court and the federal courts administer death-penalty justice.".
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Originally Published: Life-and-Death Decisions: State, U.S. Courts at Odds on Sentences, April 15, 2002; pp. 1A+.
"When it comes to death sentences, the California Supreme Court and federal courts seldom agree. The state's highest court upholds them. Federal judges overturn them." (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) The author maintains that "federal judges and the state Supreme Court have developed very different legal standards for evaluating death sentences--such different standards that nowhere in the country is there a more pronounced divide in the way a state high court and the federal courts administer death-penalty justice.".
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