Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Jackson v. United States
516 U.S. 858
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1995-10-02
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- defense expert properly prohibited from testifying to opinions not individualized to the defendant or his crime
- defense expert could not testify about effect on defendant's children of death sentence compared to life without parole, where expert had neither met nor examined the children
- This Court stated that "killing more than one person is sufficient to support this aggravating circumstance," and concluded that the killing of the defendant's wife and her mother was "sufficient to support the aggravating circumstance of great risk of death to more than one person."
Citator
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.