Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Love v. United States
Love v. United States, 503 U.S. 973 (1992)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1992-04-06
- Topic
- general
holding that counsel’s decision not to pursue additional psychological testing was within reasonable professional judgment, after initial tests revealed no mitigating psychiatric conditions | concluding that questions regarding expert's conclusions are for jury | Court has not extended Ake but test is whether defendant was denied basic tools of defense | consolidation of charges not the subject of assignment of error not considered in passion and prejudice review | “We have previously recognized that the Virginia Supreme Court has thus provided a constitutionally limited construction of its vileness aggravating factor” | defendant found to have murdered victim to avoid arrest for rape | defendant found to have murdered victim to avoid arrest for rape | defendant sodomized child victim and used stun gun on victim's penis | defendant sodomized child victim and used stun gun on victim's penis | Ake not extended, defendant did not show need for expert
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C. A. 7th Cir. Cer-tiorari denied.