Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Bottoson v. Florida

469 U.S. 873

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1984-10-01
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • during a shoot out with police, the defendant killed one officer, wounded a second, and narrowly missed a third
  • requiring proof of criminal conviction to rebut analogous mitigating factor under Alabama statute
  • upholding judge’s use of pre-allocution prepared statement in death penalty case
  • juror is competent if he can lay aside any bias or prejudice and render verdict solely on the evidence presented and the court's instructions
  • "[t]he Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel does not require counsel to raise every objection without regard to its merits"
  • victim was raped, strangled, stabbed in the neck and shot twice; Court specifically notes victim's intense mental, as well as physical, pain during the ordeal
  • defendant engaged in shoot-out with police, killing one officer, wounding a second, and missing a third
  • contention that accomplice's sentence of 25 years' imprisonment pursuant to plea bargain rendered defendant's sentence to death disproportionate "lacks merit"

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Sup. Ct. Ala. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 83-6555, 443 So. 2d 962; No. 83-6580, 720 F. 2d 839; No. 83-6623, 662 S. W. 2d 854; No. 83-6660, 443 So. 2d 1091; No. 83-6690, 666 S. W. 2d 41; No. 83-6694, 445 So. 2d 1203; No. 83-6699, 445 So. 2d 326; No. 83-6708, 720 F. 2d 1108; No. 83-6740, 299 Md. 88, 472 A. 2d 953; No. 83-6748, 667 S. W. 2d 44; No. 83-6763, 216 Neb. 515, 344 N. W. 2d 469; No. 83-6802, 216 Neb. 521, 344 N. W. 2d 473; No. 83-6806, 665 S. W. 2d 325; No. 83-6811, 101 Ill. 2d 147, 461 N. E. 2d 415; *874 No. 83-6829, 725 F. 2d 1511; No. 83-6833, 252 Ga. 60, 312 S. E. 2d 300; No. 83-6855, 679 P. 2d 1008; No. 83-6882, 252 Ga. 227, 314 S. E. 2d 83; No. 83-6895, 446 So. 2d 1038; No. 83-6912, 667 S. W. 2d 712; No. 84-85, 252 Ga. 351, 314 S. E. 2d 621; No. 84-5001, 227 Va. 124, 314 S. E. 2d 371; No. 84-5007, 252 Ga. 418, 314 S. E. 2d 210; No. 84-5049, 733 F. 2d 304; No. 84-5092, 449 So. 2d 209; No. 84-5125, 448 So. 2d 927; No. 84-5129, 460 N. E. 2d 922; No. 84-5185, 671 S. W. 2d 459; No. 84-5228, 450 So. 2d 171.