Bradford Allen Thompson v. Texas

Whether Dawson u. Delaware’s I First Amendment prohibition against using a defendant’s “abstract beliefs” (in this case, an interest in Nazi literature and Petitioner’s SS lightning-bolt tattoos) as sentencing evidence applies to non-capital felony cases and more importantly, should this Court revisit Dawson and adopt an appropriate standard to guide a Dawson relevancy inquiry? 503 U.S. 159 (1992).