The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Justice SOTOMAYOR, with whom Justice BREYER joins as to Parts I and II, dissenting from denial of certiorari.
The jury that convicted Mario Dion Woodward of capital murder voted 8 to 4 against imposing the death penalty. But the trial judge overrode the jury's decision and sentenced Woodward to death after hearing new evidence and finding, contrary to the jury's prior determination of the same question, that...
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