Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Youngs v. Lawyers Surety Corp.
Youngs v. Laws. Sur. Corp., 488 U.S. 945 (1988)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1988-11-07
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- heinous, atrocious, or cruel aggravator improperly found where victim shot in the chest, attempted to flee, then shot in the back
- where “fatal [head] shots came almost immediately after the initial shot to the [officer’s] arm,” crime was not especially heinous, atrocious or cruel
- victim killed by three shots during grocery store robbery not cold, calculated, and premeditated
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.