California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Babbitt, 248 Cal.Rptr. 69, 45 Cal.3d 660, 755 P.2d 253 (Cal. 1988):
We decline to find the instruction fatally ambiguous. In People v. Jackson (1980) 28 Cal.3d 264, 316, 168 Cal.Rptr. 603, 618 P.2d 149, in rejecting the claim that a failure to specify which of the factors were aggravating and which mitigating made former section 190.3 invalid, we stated, "We believe that the aggravating or mitigating nature of these various factors should be self-evident to any reasonable person within the context of each case." We see no reason [755 P.2d 287] to conclude otherwise concerning the almost identical provisions of the 1978 law.
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