Serot v. Commissioner

How later courts describe this case

• finding that district court did not err in preventing defendant to inform jury that the only sentence other than death was life without parole where the Sentencing Guidelines vested district court with discretion to adjust life sentence downward
• because sentencing guidelines vest district court with discretion to adjust life sentence downward, life sentence without possibility of parole is not only legal sentence other than death which defendant might receive and, therefore Simmons is inapplicable