Legal Opinion
Estelle v. Smith
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 18, 1981No. 79-1127PublishedCited by 1,925 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari to consider whether the prosecution’s use of psychiatric testimony at the sentencing phase of respondent’s capital murder trial to establish his future dangerousness violated his constitutional rights. 445 U. S. 926 (1980).
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On December 28, 1973, respondent Ernest Benjamin Smith was indicted for murder arising from his participation in the armed robbery of a grocery store during which a clerk was fatally shot, not by Smith, but by his accomplice. In accordance with Art. 1257 (b) (2) of the Tex. Penal Code Ann. (Yernon 1974) concerning the punishment for murder with…
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