Simmons v. South Carolina
Supreme Court of the United States
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Blackmun
This case presents the question whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated by the refusal of a state trial court to instruct the jury in the penalty phase of a capital trial that under state law the defendant was ineligible for parole. We hold that where the defendant’s future dangerousness is at issue, and state law prohibits the defendant’s release on parole, due process requires that the sentencing jury be informed that the defendant is parole ineligible.
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In July 1990, petitioner beat to death an elderly woman, Josie Lamb, in her home in Columbia, South…
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