 The 2007 report found that throughout the case against Deskovic, errors were made that propelled the case to an "unjust" outcome, including police and prosecutorial "tunnel vision," overreliance on profiling, and a what the report called a deliberate attempt to play down the DNA evidence that ultimately led to Deskovic's exoneration.Following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the death penalty in 1976 (Gregg v. Georgia), McQuillan was also the first to declare that New York's death penalty was unconstitutional, and to give specific reasons for it.He ruled that  the law was unconstitutional according to the Supreme Court's ruling, because it did not give a judge or a jury leeway to exercise discretion in deciding an appropriate sentence for a particular case, and did not provide for two separate trials—one for determination of guilt and another for determination of sentence.