Faust v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• continuing threat supported by unadjudicated criminal acts occurring after murder including robbery, threatening to kill store clerk and stealing car
• finding criminal activity occurring after murder sufficient to support continuing threat
• police making untrue statements "to induce [the defendant] to confess" did not render the defendant's confession involuntary
• police making untrue statements “to induce [the defendant] to confess” did hot render the defendant’s confession involuntary
• constitution does not require that jurors consider any particular evidence to be mitigating
• sufficiency review of mitigating evidence not required under Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments