James Worley v. Ohio
Is a capital conviction and sentence in valid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, when po tential jurors are exposed to a highly derogatory history of the defendant, and then to a ve ry positive history of the prosecuting attorney and his witnesses during voir dire?
Is a capital conviction and sentence invalid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, when potential jurors are exposed to a highly derogatory history of the defendant, and then to a very positive history of the prosecuting attorney and his witnesses during voir dire?