Rivera v. Delaware

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1976-10-12

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Mr. Justice Brennan, with whom Mr. Justice Marshall joins, dissenting. Appellant was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree, in Delaware Superior Court. The Delaware Supreme Court reversed and remanded with instructions to strike the murder conviction but to enter a judgment of conviction for manslaughter; the constitutionality of a Delaware statute that requires a crimina…

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