Legal Opinion
Booth v. Maryland
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided September 21, 1987No. 86-5020PublishedCited by 1,429 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
The question presented is whether the Constitution prohibits a jury from considering a “victim impact statement” during the sentencing phase of a capital murder trial.
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In 1983, Irvin Bronstein, 78, and his wife Rose, 75, were robbed and murdered in their West Baltimore home. The murderers, John Booth and Willie Reid, entered the victims’ *498home for the apparent purpose of stealing money to buy heroin. Booth, a neighbor of the Bronsteins, knew that the elderly couple could identify him. The victims were bound and gagged, and then stabbed repeatedly in the chest with a kitchen knife. The…
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