United States Tenth Circuit

In a death penalty case, the court must provide jury instruction on weighing mitigating evidence even if it provided other instructions to consider all the evidence, and to consider lesser penalty of life imprisonment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/30/2001
• Published 03/30/2001

Judges

• BALDOCK, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, BALDOCK, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• K. Leslie Delk, Norman, OK, for Petitioner-Appellee/Cross-Appellant., Seth S. Branham, Assistant Attorney General (W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma with him on the briefs), Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondent-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.