Legal Opinion
Parker v. Dugger
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 22, 1991No. 89-5961PublishedCited by 415 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
This case requires us to determine precisely what effect the Florida courts gave to the evidence petitioner presented in mitigation of his death sentence, and consequently to determine whether his death sentence meets federal constitutional requirements.
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On the afternoon of February 6, 1982, petitioner Robert Parker and several others set off to recover money owed them for the delivery of illegal drugs. There followed a nightmarish series of events that ended in the early morning hours of February 7 with the deaths of Richard Padgett, Jody Dalton, and Nancy Sheppard.
A Duval County, Florida,…
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