In a landmark 1989 decision, a sharply divided Supreme Court used the case to rule that it did not violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment to execute someone who is mentally retarded, but that the jury must be properly instructed to give adequate consideration to the defendant's retardation.
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The decision to confer immunity upon potential criminal defendants is a significant one, and making it without adequate consideration or information can have a damaging impact on criminal investigations, either by depriving the Department of leverage to secure a witness's full cooperation or by immunizing conduct that is more serious than appears.
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In both cases, the Court struck down school assignment plans designed to ensure that the racial composition of schools roughly reflected the composition of the district as a whole, saying that the plans were not narrowly tailored to achieve the stated goal and that race-neutral alternatives had not been given adequate consideration.
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Instead of providing stable rules that support basic research while leaving plenty of scope for American entrepreneurship and innovation, congresses and presidents have repeatedly backed policies which promise solutions that are politically expedient, but whose prospects are doubtful, without adequate consideration of the dollar costs, environmental costs, or national security costs of their actions.
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The committee stated that " Given that these issues have not received adequate consideration, the Committee feels it is important that the following comments do not constitute an endorsement of REAL ID or the regulations as workable or appropriate ", and " The issues pose serious risks to an individual s privacy and, without amelioration, could undermine the stated goals of the REAL ID Act ".
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In review of the history on this file, it seems that the Demetrioff article has been singled out a number of times for unsubstantiated claims : first not notable, which once demonstrated he is, was not given adequate consideration . Second, a number of similar articles on other Canadian political strategists were provided . The response on " talk "-he was the only one found out.
