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Payne v. Tennessee

Payne v. Tennessee

a case resulting in a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing that the admissibility in court of victim impact statements must be considered on a case-by-case basis and that such statements are not per se excluded from all sentencing proceedings.

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