Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Peralta v. United States
Peralta v. United States, 502 U.S. 986 (1991)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1991-12-02
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that “[t]he state may properly argue that the defense has failed to establish a mitigating factor and may also argue that the jury should not be swayed by sympathy”
- not error to refuse to give merger instruction where trial court merged aggravating factors into one
- interpreting identical language in former Indiana Code § 85-38-2-2(c)
- interpreting identical language in former Indiana Code § 35-38-2-2(c)
- juror had apparent difficulty reading the jury questionnaire
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C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.