People v. LaValle

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 2004-06-24

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R.S. Smith, J. (dissenting). The Court today renders New York’s death penalty statute unenforceable on the ground that *134 the statute fails to afford death penalty defendants a newly discovered constitutional right: the right to a penalty phase trial before a jury that is told, in advance, that a hung jury guarantees the same…

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