California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Dalton, 247 Cal.Rptr.3d 273, 441 P.3d 283, 7 Cal.5th 166 (Cal. 2019):
People v. Letner and Tobin (2010) 50 Cal.4th 99, 206, 112 Cal.Rptr.3d 746, 235 P.3d 62 [disapproving of instructing a penalty phase jury to " assume or presume that the sentence will be carried out"].)
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