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DARDEN v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 85-5319.

477 U.S. 168 (1986)

DARDEN v. WAINWRIGHT, SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 23, 1986

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Augustus Harper, Jr., argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner.

Richard W. Prospect, Assistant Attorney General of Florida, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Jim Smith, Attorney General.

JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents three questions concerning the validity of petitioner's criminal conviction and death sentence: (i) whether the exclusion for cause of a member of the venire violated the principles announced in Wainwright v. Witt, 469 U.S. 412 (1985); (ii) whether the prosecution's closing argument during the guilt phase of a bifurcated trial rendered the trial fundamentally...

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