| Oregon v. Guzek | |
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| Argued December 7, 2005 Decided February 22, 2006 | |
| Full case name | Oregon, Petitioner v. Randy Lee Guzek |
| Docket no. | 04-928 |
| Citations | 546 U.S. 517 (more) 126 S. Ct. 1226; 163 L. Ed. 2d 1112; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 1818; 74 U.S.L.W. 4142; 19 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 100 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Defendant convicted, Circuit Court of Deschutes County, 1988; conviction affirmed, sentence vacated, remanded, 797 P.2d 1031 (Ore. 1990); defendant resentence, Circuit Court of Deschutes County; sentence vacated, remanded, 906 P.2d 272 (Ore. 1995); defendant resentenced, Circuit Court of Deschutes County; sentence vacated, remanded, 86 P.3d 1106 (Ore. 2004); cert. granted, 125 S. Ct. 1929 (2005) |
| Holding | |
| States may constitutionally limit the evidence of innocence a defendant convicted of a capital offense may present at his sentencing hearing to the evidence already presented at his trial. Oregon Supreme Court vacated and remanded. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Breyer, joined by Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg |
| Concurrence | Scalia (in judgment), joined by Thomas |
| Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. VIII | |
Oregon v. Guzek, 546 U.S. 517 (2006), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled that the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not grant criminal defendants facing the death penalty the right to introduce new evidence of their innocence during sentencing that was not introduced during trial. Accordingly, states could constitutionally exclude such evidence from the sentencing phase of a capital trial.