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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