In the Summer After Your First Year at Law School

Multiple Choice

In the summer after your first year at law school, you begin an internship at a Texas law firm called "Execution Stoppers." As you discerned from their name, they specialize in keeping accused criminals off death row. On your first day at the firm, they ask you to write a memo summarizing their three easiest cases of the month. Case 1 involves a 17 year-old boy who is accused of felony murder, a capital offense in that state. Case 2 involves an accused murdered whose IQ score is 62. Case 3 involves an individual who raped and murdered a child. Answer the following questions about the report you will craft to summarize these cases.
-For the client in Case 3, the rape of a child is likely to be considered which of the following:

A) a mitigating factor for the jury to consider in the capital sentencing phase
B) an aggravating factor for the jury to consider in the capital sentencing phase
C) an aggravating factor for the judge to consider in the capital sentencing phase
D) inadmissible information that a jury will never hear