EVANS
v.
MISSISSIPPI; DELAP V. FLORIDA

U.S. | 1984-06-25
Nos. 83-6213; No. 83-6419
467 U.S. 1264 Supreme Court of the United States (1984) Caution
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Dissent
Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.


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    …st contends that the failure to provide written instructions for the jury to take into their deliberations was reversible error. This issue already has been resolved adversely to appellant in Delap v. State, 440 So. 2d 1242 (Fla.1983), cert. denied, 467 U.S. 1264, 104 S.Ct. 3559, 82 L.Ed.2d 860 (1984). Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.400 gives the trial court discretion to provide or not to provide written instructions. We recognize the efficacy of assisting the jury in understanding its task, and, alth…
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    …e had reviewed the results of a polygraph examination conducted on Hansbrough. Defense counsel moved for a mistrial, which the trial court denied. Although polygraph evidence is inadmissible, Delay v. State, 440 So. 2d 1242 (Fla.1983), cert. denied, 467 U.S. 1264, 104 S.Ct. 3569, 82 L.Ed.2d 860 (1984), the mere mention of a polygraph examination is not necessarily reversible error. Davis v. State, 461 So. 2d 67 (Fla.1984), cert. denied, 473 U.S. 913, 105 S.Ct. 3540, 87 L.Ed.2d 663 (1985); Sullivan v. State,…
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