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BROCK v. NORTH CAROLINA (1953)

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BROCK v. NORTH CAROLINA
Term: 1952
Important Dates
Argued: October 23, 1952
Decided: February 2, 1953
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed
Concurring
Felix Frankfurter
Dissenting
William Douglas • Frederick Vinson

BROCK v. NORTH CAROLINA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 2, 1953. The case was argued before the court on October 23, 1952.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Carolina State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Double jeopardy
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: North Carolina
  • Citation: 344 U.S. 424
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Sherman Minton

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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