Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Ruffin v. Austin
455 U.S. 1038
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1982-03-22
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- there are no statutory or constitutional requirements of specific findings on the mitigating circumstances submitted to the jury
- defendant beat victim with tire tool, cut her with knife, raped her, ran over her body with a car, and left her to die in a lonely field
- defendant beat his victim, hit her with a tire tool, deliberately and carefully cut her with a knife, raped her, ran over her with a car, and then left her alone to die
- evidence of pending charges admissible in a capital murder trial to show defendant's state of mind when he killed a sheriff during an escape from jail
Citator
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- Authority status
- pending
- Cited by
- 65 opinions
Super. Ct. Ga., Tatnall County;
Sup. Ct. Va.;
Sup. Ct. N. C.; and
Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-6131, 222 Va. 766, 284 S. E. 2d 816; No. 81-6143, 304 N. C. 201, 283 S. E. 2d 732; No. 81-6151, 248 Ga. 558, 284 S. E. 2d 390.