Schad v. Arizona
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| Schad v. Arizona | ||||||||||||
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| Decided June 21, 1991 |
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| Holding | ||||||||||||
| (1) Robbery is not a lesser included offense of felony murder predicated on robbery, and so Beck v. Alabama does not require a jury instruction on robbery when a defendant is charged with felony murder. (2) Because jurors need not agree on the mode of commission of an offense, Arizona may classify both premeditated murder and felony murder as first-degree murder and require that jurors unanimously agree only that first-degree murder was committed, rather than that felony murder or premeditated murder was committed. | ||||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: William Rehnquist Associate Justices: Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter |
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| Case opinions | ||||||||||||
| Majority by: Souter Joined by: Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, Scalia Concurrence by: Scalia Dissent by: White Joined by: Blackmun, Stevens, White |
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| Sixth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment | ||||||||||||
Schad v. Arizona, , is a United States Supreme Court decision that explained which charges need to be explained to the jury in trials for felony murder.
