Flores v. California

1. Does the Sixth Amendment’s jury-trial right require that the jury find beyond a reasonable doubt that aggravating circumstances exist, that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating circumstances, and that death is the appropriate punishment? 2. Does the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause require that the jury find beyond a reasonable doubt that aggravating circumstances exist, that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating circumstances, and that death is the appropriate punishment?