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Barefoot v. Estelle

Barefoot v. Estelle

a 1983 case resulting in a decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a death sentence after a psychiatrist testified at trial that the likelihood the defendant would reoffend was 100% and absolute, although the psychiatrist had never examined the defendant.

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