Defendants in death penalty murder cases do not have a constitutional right to use alibi evidence when they are sentenced by juries, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The justices said the Oregon Supreme Court was wrong when it extended the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment to allow defendants to present evidence of "residual doubt" to juries that had already found them guilty.
February 23, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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Defendants in death penalty murder cases do not have a constitutional right to use alibi evidence when they are sentenced by juries, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
In an 8-to-0 ruling, the justices said the state of Oregon’s Supreme Court was wrong when it extended the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment to allow defendants to present evidence of “residual doubt” to juries that had already found them guilty.
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