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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has rejected a California death row inmate's claims that the jury's consideration of biblical passages about capital punishment during sentencing deliberations violated his Sixth Amendment rights. (Fields v. Brown, 2007 WL 2580788 (9th Cir. Sept. 10, 2007).)
"It is wrong to consider [the Bible] at trial, let alone in a death penalty case," said David Olson, the Los Angeles attorney who argued the inmate's habeas appeal before the court.
Stevie Lamar Fields has been on California's death row for 28 years, since a jury convicted him in 1979 for the robbery and murder of a student librarian and for crimes against four others, including robbery at gunpoint, kidnapping for robbery, assault with...
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