United States v. Gary Lee Sampson

U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · Decided 2007-05-07

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SELYA, Circuit Judge. This is a landmark case; for the first time in its history, this court must review a sentence of death imposed by a federal judge. To that extent, we are writing on a pristine page. We are guided in this path-breaking endeavor, however, by a variety of reliable sources, including Supreme Court precedent, decisions of other courts of appeals in capital cases,…

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