Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Shirk v. McLaughlin
488 U.S. 806
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1988-10-03
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- seventeen stab wounds, victim killed while alone, several defensive wounds, victim survived five to ten minutes; evidence held sufficient to support “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel” circumstance
- court did not err in refusing to submit two non-statutory mitigating circumstances regarding defendant's criminal record where a submitted statutory mitigating circumstance allowed the jury to consider defendant's criminal record as a whole
- court did not err in refusing to submit two nonstatutory mitigating circumstances regarding defendant’s criminal record where a submitted statu tory mitigating circumstance allowed the jury to consider defendant’s criminal record as a whole
Citator
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- Authority status
- pending
- Cited by
- 111 opinions
C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari granted, judgment vacated, and case remanded for further consideration in light of McLaughlin v. Richland Shoe Co., 486 U. S. 128 (1988).