Gardner v. Florida

Supreme Court of the United States
Gardner v. Florida, 428 U.S. 908 (1976)
96 S. Ct. 3219

Gardner v. Florida

Opinion of the Court

Sup. Ct. Fla. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau-*909peris granted. Certiorari granted limited to Question II presented by the petition which reads as follows: “Whether nondisclosure of a 'confidential’ portion of a pre-sentence investigation report to a defendant convicted of a capital crime constitutes a denial of the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and of the right to a fair hearing as guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, in a case where the trial judge declines to accept a jury recommendation of a life sentence and instead imposes the death sentence partially on the basis of the pre-sentence report?”

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