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303.6 Death Penalty: Consideration Of Defendant’s Individual Role
303.6.1 Defendant's Minimal Participation As Mitigating Factor
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VOLUME 17 - CHAPTER 303
303.6.1 Defendant's Minimal Participation As Mitigating Factor
PRACTICE NOTE: See Lockett v. Ohio (1978) 438 US 586, 606 [98 SCt 2954; 57 LEd2d 973] [minimal participation in crime as mitigating factor]; Mak v. Blodgett (9th Cir. 1992) 970 F2d 614, 622-624 [refusal to admit at penalty phase circumstantial evidence that petitioner’s codefendant and a third party, rather than petitioner, might have planned the murder in question was constitutional error].
See Capital Punishment Handbook [4.8.2.1 Minimal Participation In Crime].