Schad v. Arizona

SCOTUSCase
Litigants=Schad v. Arizona
Arguedate=February 27
ArgueYear=1991
DecideDate=June 21
DecideYear=1991
FullName=Schad v. State of Arizona
USVol=501
USPage=624
Prior=Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arizona
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.
SCOTUS=1990-1991
Majority=Souter
JoinMajority=Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, Scalia
Concurrence=Scalia
Dissent=White
JoinDissent=Blackmun, Stevens, White
LawsApplied=Sixth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment

"Schad v. Arizona", ussc|501|624|1991, is a United States Supreme Court decision that explained which charges need to be explained to the jury in trials for felony murder.

ee also

* List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 501

External links

* [http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-5551.ZS.html Text of decision available from LII, Cornell University]
* [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&friend=nytimes&court=US&case=/us/501/624.html Text of decision from findlaw.com]
* [http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/344/ Other information regarding the case from oyez.org]
* [http://www.azcorrections.gov/DeathRow/ProfilesBase.asp?inmate=SchadE Case profile from the Arizona Department of Corrections]
* [http://www.capdefnet.org/hat/contents/intro_to_8th/3_intro_to_8th.htm Capital Defense Network's "Introduction to the Eighth Amendment"]