Certiorari denied. JUSTICE BLACKMUN dissents from the denial of the petition for writ of certiorari.
JUSTICE MARSHALL, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN joins, dissenting.
Petitioner in this case, James Messer, was sentenced to death by a jury that was unable in any meaningful fashion to give him the "individualized consideration" to which he has a constitutional right, Lockett v. Ohio,
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