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20-8101 Joseph Weldon Smith v. Perry Russell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson capital-sentencing harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment stromberg-error stromberg-v-california Whether a federal court may disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error and instead ask only what a hypothetical jury instructed on a valid…
19-8090 Joseph Weldon Smith v. Nevada Nevada 2020-03-24 Denied aggravating-factors capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment Did the Nevada Supreme Court violate Mr. Smith's constitutional rights by making the outweighing requirement an afterthought for the jury, used only t…
19A850 Joseph Weldon Smith v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Nevada 2020-01-28 Presumed Complete None