Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Patterson v. Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Patterson v. Dretke, Dir., Tex. Dep’t of Criminal Justice, Corr. Insts. Div., 543 U.S. 998 (2004)

Type: Opinion
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: Federal
Date: 2004-11-29
Topic: general

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holding that the Fifth Amendment does not require the government to charge non-statutory aggravating factors in the indictment because "[t]he finding of a non-statutory aggravated alone will not support imposition of the death penalty.''

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