Smith v. North Carolina; Williams v. North Carolina; And Pinch v. North Carolina

Sup. Ct. N. C. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 82-5335, 305 N. C. 691, 292 S. E. 2d 264; No. 82-5352, 305 N. C. 656, 292 S. E. 2d 243; No. 82-5353, 306 N. C. 1, 292 S. E. 2d 203.

Opinion of

Justice Stevens

respecting the denial of the petitions for writ of certiorari.

In each of these three capital cases the trial judge instructed the jury that it had a duty to impose the death penalty if it found: (1) that one or more aggravating circumstances existed; (2) that the aggravating circumstances were sufficiently substantial to call for the death penalty; and (3) that the aggravating…