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Cases pin-citing Enmund

Enmund v. Florida  ·  1982  ·  21 pinpoint citations from 6 cases, 8 distinct passages.


Nelson v. Quarterman  ·  2006-12-14  ·  Fifth Circuit  ·  6 pin-cites  ·  pin 102 L. Ed. 2d at 782
"Enmund['s] . . . culpability is plainly different from that of the robbers who killed; yet the State treated them alike and attributed to Enmund the culpability of those who killed the Kerseys. This was impermissible under the Eighth Amendment."
United States v. Moussaoui  ·  2003-10-02  ·  E.D. Virginia  ·  2 pin-cites  ·  pin 102 L. Ed. 2d at 1140
“the focus must be on [the defendant’s] culpability, not on that of those who... [killed] the victims”
Clark v. Johnson  ·  2000-09-12  ·  Fifth Circuit  ·  pin 102 S. Ct. at 3368
“Enmund only places ‘a substantive limitation on sentencing, and like other such limits it need not be enforced by the jury.’ ”
Shelton v. State  ·  1995-01-04  ·  Supreme Court of Delaware  ·  3 pin-cites  ·  pin 102 L. Ed. 2d at 782
“[T]he focus ha[s] to be on [the defendant’s] culpability, not on that of those who committed the robbery and shot the victims, for we insist on individualized consideration as a constitutional requirement in imposing the death sentence”
John Harvey Adamson v. James G. Ricketts, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections  ·  1988-12-22  ·  Ninth Circuit  ·  6 pin-cites  ·  pin 102 L. Ed. 2d at 782
"American criminal law has long considered a defendant's intention--and therefore his moral guilt--to be critical to the 'degree of [his] criminal culpability'...."
Larry Eugene Mann v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent  ·  1988-04-21  ·  Eleventh Circuit  ·  3 pin-cites  ·  pin 102 L. Ed. 2d at 782
"We have ... held that a jury recommendation of death should be given great weight."