Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

McDonald v. Missouri

471 U.S. 1009

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1985-04-01
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • holding charge was not fundamentally defective when charge provided "by choking or strangling" while indictment alleged "by choking and strangling"
  • upholding for-cause challenge where venireperson twice said he could never impose death penalty, but “equivocated somewhat” in response to counsel’s questions
  • limiting use of open-ended questions is proper exercise of court’s discretion
  • jury found this aggravating circumstance where defendant repeatedly hit his mother-in-law over the head with an iron pan
  • jury found this aggravating circumstance where defendant repeat edly hit his mother-in-law over the head with an iron pan
  • “It is . . . clear that the new rule [703] is not confined in its application to medical and psychiatric experts.”
  • defendant beat his mother-in-law to death with a cast iron skillet inflicting multiple wounds to her head, neck and shoulders
  • limitation of defense counsel’s use of open-ended questions held proper exercise of court’s discretion

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Sup. Ct. Mo. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 83-6298, 661 S. W. 2d 497; No. 84-6006, 748 F. 2d 852; No. 84-6036, 682 S. W. 2d 301; No. 84-6098, 676 S. W. 2d 364; No. 84-6131, 253 Ga. 604, 323 S. E. 2d 150; No. 84-6167, 458 So. 2d 226; No. 84-6183, 312 N. C. 92, 322 S. E. 2d 110; Nos. 84-6186 and 84-6189, 285 S. C. 21, 328 S. E. 2d 464; No. 84-6223, 459 So. 2d 948; No. 84-6230, 285 S. C. 13, 328 S. E. 2d 53; No. 84-6254, 680 S. W. 2d 141.