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Witherspoon excludables

prospective jurors who so strongly oppose the death penalty that they are unwilling to consider it as a sentencing option and are therefore excludable from a death-qualified jury. The allusion is to the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Witherspoon v. Illinois. See also Wainwright v. Wittwainwright-v-witt.

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cortical–subcortical motor loop

cortical–subcortical motor loop

a loop, made up of projections between the motor cortex and structures in the basal ganglia and the thalamus, that monitors and sequences ongoing motor behaviors.