SMITH v. NORTH CAROLINA

No. 82-5335.

459 U.S. 1056 (1982)

SMITH v. NORTH CAROLINA.

Supreme Court of United States.

November 29, 1982.


Certiorari denied.

Opinion of JUSTICE STEVENS respecting the denial of the petitions for writ of certiorari.

In each of these three capital cases the trial judge instructed the jury that it has a duty to impose the death penalty if it found: (1) that one or more aggravating circumstances existed; (2) that the aggravating circumstances were sufficiently substantial to call for the death penalty; and (3) that the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating...

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