Gonzalez v. DeTella’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.3d 619 · 1997
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Estelle v. McGuire · Lindh v. Murphy · Old Chief v. United States · Gomez v. Ahitow
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“admission of “gruesome” photos of the decedent in a murder case does not justify collateral relief, even when the evidence is cumulative and likely designed more to inflame the jury than to supply an essential underpinning of the prosecution’s case. Photographs of the decedent’s body are relevant. They tend to show that the crime charged by the indictment took place. Graphic depictions of multiple bullet wounds also may be relevant: they can (and here did) support the prosecution’s other evidence about how the crime occurred... .Although these facts were adduced in a more sedate fashion through the testimony of a pathologist, no rule of law, and certainly no rule of constitutional law, limits the prosecutor to one piece of evidence in support of each element of the offense. This is so even when the element is uncontested' — -indeed, even when the defendant offers to admit the element....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“limits the prosecutor to one piece of evidence in support of each element of the offense . . . even when the element is uncontested--indeed, even when the defendant offers to admit the element.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all things considered the trial posed an unacceptably great risk of convicting an innocent person, and the judicial process therefore denied the accused due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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