Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Hydroculture, Inc. v. Coopers
Hydroculture, Inc. v. Coopers, 464 U.S. 986 (1983)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1983-11-14
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- Defendant claimed that death penalty visited upon poor persons and male persons in disproportionate numbers
- defendant is entitled to impartial judge but not one totally ignorant of previous proceedings
- where victim “died almost instantly from a single gunshot wound [to the chest],” state failed to prove aggravating circumstance of “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner”
- state must prove aggravating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt
- wherein accomplices had not even been prosecuted for the offense
- burden on defendant to show mitigating circumstances
- two accomplices to murder never charged
Citator
UpLaw has not yet analyzed Hydroculture, Inc. v. Coopers. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.
- Cited by
- 199 opinions
C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.
Justice O’Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.