Summary

McGautha v. California (398 U.S. 936…

Does California's practice of allowing capital trial juries absolute discretion, uncontrolled by standards or directions of any kind, to impose the death penalty upon a defendant convicted of the crime of murder violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?'
Case transferred to the appellate docket and placed on the summary calendar.
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