Certiorari denied.
MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL, with whom MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN joins, dissenting.
The issue presented is whether a sentence of death may constitutionally be imposed by a trial judge who has been made "aware" of, but states that he has not "considered," certain information in a presentence report not revealed to the defendant.
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Petitioner was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and rape in 1973. The trial judge, following the...
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