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ARIZONA v. RUMSEY (1984)

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ARIZONA v. RUMSEY
Term: 1983
Important Dates
Argued: April 23, 1984
Decided: May 29, 1984
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
William Rehnquist • Byron White

ARIZONA v. RUMSEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 29, 1984. The case was argued before the court on April 23, 1984.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arizona State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Double jeopardy
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Arizona
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 467 U.S. 203
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • 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 liberal.

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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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