The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether a guilty plea waives
the protections against self-incrimination in the penalty phase.
Robert Woodall had pleaded guilty to capital murder, capital kidnapping and first-degree rape in connection to the 1997 death of a 16-year-old girl.
Police had found the teenager's body naked and floating in a lake about a half-mile from the convenience store she had been trying to visit on the night she disappeared.
Though her throat was slashed twice and her windpipe was totally severed, her actual cause of death was drowning.
At the penalty phase, Woodall asked the Kentucky trial judge to instruct the jury that it should not draw any adverse inference from his decision not to testify.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/06/27/58896.htm
Robert Woodall had pleaded guilty to capital murder, capital kidnapping and first-degree rape in connection to the 1997 death of a 16-year-old girl.
Police had found the teenager's body naked and floating in a lake about a half-mile from the convenience store she had been trying to visit on the night she disappeared.
Though her throat was slashed twice and her windpipe was totally severed, her actual cause of death was drowning.
At the penalty phase, Woodall asked the Kentucky trial judge to instruct the jury that it should not draw any adverse inference from his decision not to testify.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/06/27/58896.htm
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