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Title: Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. v. Kansas Gas and Electric Co.
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Release Date : January 01, 1988
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 75 KB

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Petitioner, Charles Troy Coleman, is under a sentence of death as a result of an Oklahoma state court conviction for first-degree murder. In this, his second federal petition for habeas corpus relief, Coleman argues that this court must vacate his death sentence because of the following alleged constitutional errors: (1) the sentencing jury found one of five aggravating circumstances was present--that the murder was "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel"--after it was instructed in an unconstitutional manner; (2) this courts invalidation of Oklahomas application of the "heinous, atrocious, or cruel" circumstance renders some of the evidence introduced at Colemans sentencing hearing constitutionally inadmissible; (3) the trial courts anti-sympathy instruction at the sentencing stage unconstitutionally diverted the jury from fully considering mitigating evidence; and (4) certain statements by the prosecutor and photographs allowed into evidence at the guilt stage constituted comments about the victim in violation of Booth v. Maryland, 482 U.S. 496, 107 S. Ct. 2529, 96 L. Ed. 2d 440 (1987). The district court denied relief.