United States v. Cuff

OPINION AND ORDER

MUKASEY, District Judge.

John Cuff is charged in the captioned indictment with, among other crimes, the murders of nine persons. He objects to the government’s Amended Notice of Intent to Seek the Death Penalty, dated August 6, 1998 (the “Amended Notice”), both for reasons that go to the particulars of that notice and for reasons that relate generally to the imposition of the death penalty. He moves to preclude the government from seeking the death penalty on some of the bases contained in the Amended Notice and, more broadly, from seeking that penalty at all.

For the reasons…