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- Title: Buchanan v. Kentucky
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 24, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 81 KB
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This case presents two narrow issues arising out of petitioner Buchanans trial for murder. First, it poses the question whether petitioner was deprived of his right to an impartial jury, representative of a fair cross section of the community, because the Commonwealth of Kentucky was permitted to "death-qualify" the jury in his joint trial where the death penalty was sought against his co-defendant. Second, the case raises the question whether the admission of findings from a psychiatric examination of petitioner proffered solely to rebut other psychological evidence presented by petitioner violated his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights where his counsel had requested the examination and where petitioner attempted to establish at trial a mental-status defense.