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cases where mitigating circumstances included an unpleasant childhood, see, e.g., State v. Gretzler, supra; State v. Clark, supra; and cases where mitigating circumstances included the defendant’s age, see, , State v. Vickers, supra; , State v. Clark, supra.

and no aggravating circumstances); , , (substantial mental impairment due to drug addiction, neurological problems and brain damage; vulnerability to influence; lack of prior record of violence); State v. Valen *396 cia, , (youth of defendant); , (change of character and goals while in prison; youth of defendant; murder occurred as a result of shootout begun by victim); , (substantial mental impairment due to brain lesion).

-64 , -47 (1981) (only two aggravating circumstances and sentence mitigated because defendant was a model prisoner, had attempted to further his education while in jail, and because the victim who was being robbed precipitated the shootout with defendant that claimed the victim’s life).

treatment since age seven, his lack of adult convictions, his non-violent juvenile criminal record, and fact that friend influenced him at time of crime outweighed fact that crime was committed with expectation of pecuniary gain); , (defendant's youth outweighed previous felony convictions involving threat or use of violence); , (finding that defendant was young, that he had been a model prisoner, that defendant was trying to better himself and that murder committed in a shootout in which victim

a (finding of lack of intent to kill outweighed finding that the killing was done in a cruel manner); , (findings of defendant’s diminished capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct, lack of other adult convictions, and no tendency toward violent crime outweighed finding that the killing was done for pecuniary gain); , (young age of defendant, the findings that defendant had been a model prisoner and was furthering his education in prison, and the fact that the killing had occurred

While a more lenient sentence received by an accomplice has been considered along with other mitigating circumstances in determining whether to impose the death penalty, , (leniency granted to accomplice together with numerous other mitigating circumstances sufficiently substantial to reduce death sentence to life imprisonment), our cases have held that the mere fact that an accomplice has received leniency does not in itself prevent the imposition of the death pen

Appellant cites State v. Watson (II), , , where very similar evidence was presented as mitigation.

1492 , 71 L.Ed.2d 693 (1982)

For example, -64 , -47 (1981), the facts that the murder occurred as the result of an unexpected shootout with the robbery victim in which the victim fired first, that defendant was twenty one years old at the time of the crime, and that there was evidence defendant had done a great deal of genuine soul searchi

1254 , 59 L.Ed.2d 478 (1979), appeal after remand, , , describing robberies committed by Spencer Watson and Timothy Reid on May 30, 1974, using the same modus operandi used by the robbers in this case.

1759 , 64 L.Ed.2d 398 (1980)

2988 , 53 L.Ed.2d 1101 (1977)