Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Contreras-Espinosa v. United States

Contreras-Espinosa v. United States, 494 U.S. 1090 (1990)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1990-04-16
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • harmless error not to charge jury on nonstatutory mitigating circumstances when there was no reasonable probability that jury would have reached a different result had they been given such an instruction
  • it was harmless error not to charge the jury on nonstatutory mitigating circumstances when there was no reasonable probability that the jury would have reached a different result had it been given such an instruction

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.