Certiorari denied.
JUSTICE BRENNAN, with whom JUSTICE MARSHALL joins, dissenting.
Petitioner Carl Songer was sentenced to death in 1974. At the sentencing hearing, Songer's attorney did not offer available character evidence in mitigation, not because he had none, or as a strategic manuever, but because he reasonably concluded that Florida law did not permit admission of such evidence. We have consistently held, however, that in capital cases "the Eighth and...
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