Childress v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• comparing the majority and dissenting opinions, and the extent to which they agree
• jury’s conviction of capital murder to the exclusion of first degree murder was necessarily a rejection of second degree murder
• trial court excused juror without waiting for formal challenge when juror stated that “if capital murder were proved, he would automatically vote to impose the death penalty”
• defendant failed to establish good cause for Rule 12(f) relief based upon the government’s alleged failure to supply defendant with a police report
• victim sustained at least 43 wounds and lacerations; back of head crushed by blows with blunt instrument; ice pick and two-pronged carving fork found protruding from victim's back; victim's ankles bound together; liquid bleach poured over body; and attempt to incinerate body
• Taylor's Sixth Amendment analysis does not overrule Swain