Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Sireci v. Florida

478 U.S. 1010

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1986-06-30
Topic
general

holding that appellate counsel need not present every possible point of error on appeal | applying rule 403 balancing approach to allow the admission of posthypnotic testimony | restrictive order entered by trial judge which curtailed the dissemination of statements by the parties, witnesses, attorneys, jurors and police | "The fact that a witness has been hypnotized before testifying does not per se require disqualification.” | “[Djeterminations of juror bias depend in great degree on the trial judge’s assessment of the potential juror’s demeanor and credibility, and on his impressions about that venireman’s state of mind” | where the failure of criminal defendants to raise questions of instructional error in a previous appeal constituted a “waiver or abandonment of them” | "[D]eterminations of juror bias depend in great degree on the trial judge's assessment of the potential juror's demeanor and credibility, and on his impressions about that venireman's state of mind" | death sentence for murder committed in course of robbery was not disproportionate to penalties imposed in similar cases where defendant committed brutal crime for personal gain, plotted it in advance, and proceeded methodically to carry out her plan

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Ct. App. Md.;

C. A. 5th Cir.;

Sup. Ct. Ind.; and

Sup. Ct. Ky. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 84-6895, 469 So. 2d 119; No. 85-1525, 703 S. W. 2d 106; No. 85-6011, 230 Va. 99, 334 S. E. 2d 838; No. 85-6273, 772 F. 2d 668; No. 85-6440, 701 S. W. 2d 808; No. 85-6649, 304 Md. 487, 499 A. 2d 1261, and 305 Md. 306, 503 A. 2d 1326; No. 85-6650, 304 Md. 439, 499 A. 2d 1236, and 305 Md. 306, 503 A. 2d 1326; No. 85-6749, 783 F. 2d 487; No. 85-6846, 486 N. E. 2d 445; No. 85-6891, 702 S. W. 2d 37.