Does a judge have to consider a defendant's criminal record as a mitigating factor in his sentencing?
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The following excerpt is from Ramirez v. Ryan, 937 F.3d 1230 (9th Cir. 2019):
Under Lockett v. Ohio , during capital sentencing, the sentencing judge should "not be precluded from considering, as a mitigating factor, any aspect of a defendants character or record and any
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