THE NATIONAL CRIMINAL JURY INSTRUCTION COMPENDIUM
Instructions And Issues Omitted By The Pattern Instructions
Copyright & Publication Information

VOLUME 17 - CHAPTER 303
Go to Volume 17 Table of Contents  -  Go to Chapter 303 Table of Contents

303.6 Death Penalty: Consideration Of Defendant’s Individual Role

    303.6.1 Defendant's Minimal Participation As Mitigating Factor


THE NATIONAL CRIMINAL JURY INSTRUCTION COMPENDIUM
Instructions And Issues Omitted By The Pattern Instructions
Copyright & Publication Information

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].