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BORDENKIRCHER, PENITENTIARY SUPERINTENDENT v. HAYES

Term: 1977
Important Dates
Argued: November 9, 1977
Decided: January 18, 1978
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Warren Burger • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell

BORDENKIRCHER, PENITENTIARY SUPERINTENDENT v. HAYES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 18, 1978. The case was argued before the court on November 9, 1977.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Plea bargaining: the constitutionality of and/or the circumstances of its exercise
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: Kentucky
Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 434 U.S. 357
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: Potter Stewart

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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