Legal Opinion
Barclay v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided July 6, 1983No. 81-6908PublishedCited by 814 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Rehnquist, joined by The Chief Justice, Justice White, and Justice O’Connor
The central question in this case is whether Florida may constitutionally impose the death penalty on petitioner *942Elwood Barclay when one of the “aggravating circumstances” relied upon by the trial judge to support the sentence was not among those established by the Florida death penalty statute.
The facts, as found by the sentencing judge and quoted by the Florida Supreme Court, are as follows:
“[T]he four defendants were part of a group that termed itself the ‘BLACK LIBERATION ARMY’ (BLA), and whose apparent sole purpose was to indiscriminately kill white persons and to start a revolution and…
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