Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Demps v. Florida

70 L. Ed. 2d 239

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1981-10-13
Topic
general

holding that a section of the Georgia Gasoline Marketing Practices Act was not unconstitutionally vague | pictures of homicide victim while alive should not be admitted at trial unless relevant to a material issue, although such an error may not be prejudicial to the outcome | pictures of homicide victim while alive should not be admitted at trial unless relevant to a material issue, although such an error may not be prejudicial to the outcome | requires “evidence that the murder in question involved brutality in excess of that which is normally present in any killing” | pictures of homicide victim while alive should not be admitted at trial unless relevant to a material issue, although such an error may not be prejudicial to the outcome

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Sup. Ct. N. C. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-5038, 395 So. 2d 501; No. 81-5169, 396 So. 2d 1113; No. 81-5192, 615 S. W. 2d 126; No. 81-5271, 272 Ark. 340, 617 S. W. 2d 1; No. 81-5336, 303 N. C. 246, 278 S. E. 2d 214.