Legal Opinion
Dawson v. Delaware
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 9, 1992No. 90-6704PublishedCited by 485 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
The question presented in this case is whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the introduction in a capital sentencing proceeding of the fact that the defendant was a member of an organization called the Aryan Brotherhood, where the evidence has no relevance to the issues being decided in the proceeding. We hold that they do.
Shortly after midnight on December 1, 1986, petitioner David Dawson and three other inmates escaped from the Delaware Correctional Center near Smyrna, Delaware. Dawson stole a car and headed south, while the other three inmates stole another car and drove…
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