Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Ginsburg joins, dissenting. The question before us is whether California’s approach to imposing the death penalty makes California a “weighing” or a “nonweighing” State for purposes of determining whether to apply “harmless-error” review in a certain kind of death case — namely, a case in which the death sentence rests in part on an invalid aggravating…
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