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BECK v. WASHINGTON (1962)

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BECK v. WASHINGTON
Term: 1961
Important Dates
Argued: November 14, 1961
Decided: May 14, 1962
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-3
Majority
William Brennan • Tom Clark • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Earl Warren

BECK v. WASHINGTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 14, 1962. The case was argued before the court on November 14, 1961.

In a 4-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Extra-legal jury influences: pretrial publicity
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Washington
  • Citation: 369 U.S. 541
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Tom Clark

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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