User talk:Catherineporto/sandbox

General Section Edits
Facts section: have you tried looking at the docket in bloomberg law? may give your more information about the background facts of the case.

You could also add a "reasoning/argument section" and get content for that by listening to or reading the oral arguments on oyez.

It may also be helpful to give layman's background about what the legal landscape was pre-simmons. for example, are instructions about potential sentencing generally banned? if so, based on what reasoning and what precedent? (not sure if this is going too far afield from your case)

You may want to have an impact section -- for example, does this new rule apply retroactively?

Additional Sources
These secondary sources may be helpful: Rmhtw (talk) 22:19, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Mary Zaug, Simmons v. South Carolina: Safeguarding A Capital Defendant's Right to Fair Sentencing, 26 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 511, 512 (1995) -- WestLaw
 * Kimberly Metzger, Resolving the "False Dilemma": Simmons v. South Carolina and the Capital-Sentencing Jury's Access to Parole Ineligibility Information, 27 U. Tol. L. Rev. 149 (1995)
 * Robert Clary, Texas's Capital-Sentencing Procedure Has A Simmons Problem: Its Gag Statute and 12-10 Rule Distort the Jury's Assessment of the Defendant's "Future Dangerousness", 54 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 57, 57 (2017) -- WestLaw
 * Tung Yin, A Better Mousetrap: Procedural Default As A Retroactivity Alternative to Teague v. Lane and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, 25 Am. J. Crim. L. 203, 207 (1998) -- WestLaw
 * Janie Clark, Putting an End to the Imposition of Death by Misperception and Misunderstanding: Simmons v. South Carolina, 43 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1147 (1995) -- Westlaw
 * South Carolina's Death Penalty Odyssey Continues, Trial, APRIL 2002 -- WestLaw