Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Griffin-El v. Bowersox
523 U.S. 1042
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1998-03-24
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that counsel’s argument that “the vilest among us is still a human being” not deficient in that counsel was attempting to appeal to the jury’s sympathy to spare defendant’s life
Citator
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