https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland History Presentation en-us 2017-01-03 22:59:48 UTC 2017-01-08 21:30:40 UTC hello@padlet.com cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184126 John Booth]]> 2017-01-03 23:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184126 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184143 2017-01-03 23:02:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184143 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184153 State of Maryland]]> 2017-01-03 23:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184153 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184269 June 15, 1987 ]]> 2017-01-03 23:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184269 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184333 The supreme Court reversed Booth's sentence]]> 2017-01-03 23:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184333 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184361 1983]]> 2017-01-03 23:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184361 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184854 2017-01-03 23:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184854 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184857 Irvin and Rose Bornstein lived in West Baltimore, Maryland. In 1983, John Booth and Willie Reid entered the Bornstein's home, to steal money for heroin. During the crime they bound the Bornstiens and stabbed them to death. The bornstien's son found his dead parents two days later.]]> 2017-01-03 23:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145184857 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145185144 Booth and Reid had separate trials in Maryland. Booth was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of robbery with conspiracy to commit robbery.]]> 2017-01-03 23:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145185144 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145185541 Maryland required  the prosecutor  To prepare a VIS, to describe how the crime affected the family. The prosecutor prepared a VIS based on interviews with the Bornstein family. As found out from the interview there were massive impacts on the family. The prosecutor read the VIS at the death penalty hearing. Booth objected saying this was a violation of the 8th amendment. The court rejected his objection, and sentenced him to death. He appealed to the Maryland court of appeals and they disagreed that this was in violation of the 8th amendment.]]> 2017-01-03 23:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145185541 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145317848 2017-01-04 17:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145317848 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145317938 The supreme court reversed Booth's death sentence, with a 5-4 decision. ]]> 2017-01-04 17:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145317938 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145320004 Justice Lewis Powell said "The Jury's job in a death penalty case is to decide whether the criminal deserves to die based on his character and background and the circumstances of the murder. The Jury is supposed to focus on the criminal's personal responsibility and moral guilt. VIS make the Jury focus on the victim instead of the criminal."

Powell said, "Murderers usually have no idea how their crimes will affect their victim's families. That means those effects have nothing to do with a criminal's blameworthiness. Victim impact evidence makes juries evaluate how much a victim is worth. That implies that people deserve to die more when they kill a valuable person who has a big family than when they kill a bad person who is alone."

That did not feel right to the Supreme Court.]]> 2017-01-04 17:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145320004 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145322001 The Supreme Court said the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment when given by a jury who has been persuaded by the VIS. Because the Jury received such influence in Booth's case, the death sentence had to be reversed]]> 2017-01-04 17:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145322001 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145329317 2017-01-04 17:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145329317 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145329350 Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.]]> 2017-01-04 17:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145329350 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145619225 Book]]> 2017-01-06 01:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145619225 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145620043 Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech. "Booth v. Maryland." Oyez. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1986/86-5020 (accessed January 3, 2017).]]> 2017-01-06 01:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145620043 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145620064 Does the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which protects a defendant from cruel and unusual punishment, prohibit a jury from considering a victim impact statement during the sentencing phase of a capital murder trial?

]]> 2017-01-06 01:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145620064 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145620149 The Court found that the victim impact statement created "a constitutionally unacceptable risk" and violated the Eighth Amendment]]> 2017-01-06 01:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145620149 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145620190 Justice Powell argued that in a capital case, the jury's sentencing task is based on the defendant as a unique individual and not on the character or impact of the crime on the victim's family. Allowing the content of a victim impact statement to influence the jury could lead it to choose the death penalty for reasons which were irrelevant to the [defendant's] decision to kill thus diverting attention from the facts of the crime]]> 2017-01-06 01:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145620190 cszeman18 https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145688836 This is important to US  history, because it prohibits a jury from considering a VIS during the sentencing phase of a victim.]]> 2017-01-06 14:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cszeman18/Booth_v_Maryland/wish/145688836