United States Tenth Circuit

Voir dire question of whether prospective jurors could "recommend" a death sentence does not improperly diminish the jury's sense of responsibility for imposing a death sentence when judge's instructions properly informed them of their duty to impose the correct sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/27/2001
• Published 06/27/2001

Judges

• PAUL J. KELLY, Jr., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, BALDOCK, and HENRY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen J. Greubel, Tulsa, OK, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William L. Humes, Assistant Attorney General (and W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General, on the brief), Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondent-Appellee.