Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner seeks review of a decision of Maryland’s highest court which construes that State’s capital sentencing scheme in a manner that preserves its constitutionality but which may not have been evident at all to the jury charged with the sentencing function in this case. Because, we have no reason to believe that the jury also arrived at this “saving”…
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