Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Gardner v. Florida

428 U.S. 908

Type: Opinion
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: Federal
Date: 1976-07-06
Topic: general

Sup. Ct. Fla. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau-*909peris granted. Certiorari granted limited to Question II presented by the petition which reads as follows: “Whether nondisclosure of a 'confidential’ portion of a pre-sentence investigation report to a defendant convicted of a capital crime constitutes a denial of the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and of the right to a fair hearing as guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, in a case where the trial judge declines to accept a jury recommendation of a life sentence and instead imposes the death sentence partially on the basis of the pre-sentence report?”

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Sup. Ct. Fla. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau- *909 peris granted. Certiorari granted limited to Question II presented by the petition which reads as follows: “Whether nondisclosure of a 'confidential’ portion of a pre-sentence investigation report to a defendant convicted of a capital crime constitutes a denial of the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and of the right to a fair hearing as guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, in a case where the trial judge declines to accept a jury recommendation of a life sentence and instead imposes the death sentence partially on the basis of the pre-sentence report?”