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ANGEL JAIME MONGE v. CALIFORNIA (1998)

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ANGEL JAIME MONGE v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 1997
Important Dates
Argued: April 28, 1998
Decided: June 26, 1998
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens

ANGEL JAIME MONGE v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 26, 1998. The case was argued before the court on April 28, 1998.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Double jeopardy
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 524 U.S. 721
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Sandra Day O'Connor

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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