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- SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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- No. 92-9093
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- JOHN JOSEPH ROMANO, PETITIONER
- v. OKLAHOMA
- on writ of certiorari to the court of criminal
- appeals of oklahoma
- [June 13, 1994]
-
- Justice Blackmun, dissenting.
- I join Justice Ginsburg's dissent, which persuasively
- demonstrates why the admission of Romano's prior death
- sentence, like the prosecutor's arguments in Caldwell v.
- Mississippi, 472 U. S. 320 (1985), created an unaccept-
- able risk of leading the jurors to minimize the impor-
- tance of their roles. Even if this particular constitu-
- tional error were not present in this case, I would
- vacate Romano's death sentence and remand for resen-
- tencing in adherence to my view that the death penalty
- cannot be imposed fairly within the constraints of our
- Constitution. See Callins v. Collins, 510 U. S. ___, ___
- (1994).
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