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BYRON KEITH COOPER v. OKLAHOMA

Term: 1995
Important Dates
Argued: January 17, 1996
Decided: April 16, 1996
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas

BYRON KEITH COOPER v. OKLAHOMA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 16, 1996. The case was argued before the court on January 17, 1996.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Oklahoma State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: miscellaneous (cf. loyalty oath), the residual code
Petitioner: Person allegedly criminally insane or mentally incompetent to stand trial
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Oklahoma
Citation: 517 U.S. 348
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: John Paul Stevens

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.

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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