CARCHMAN, MERCER COUNTY PROSECUTOR v. NASH (1985)

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CARCHMAN, MERCER COUNTY PROSECUTOR v. NASH
Term: 1984
Important Dates
Argued: April 22, 1985
Decided: July 2, 1985
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

CARCHMAN, MERCER COUNTY PROSECUTOR v. NASH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on July 2, 1985. The case was argued before the court on April 22, 1985.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Jersey U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: presentation, admissibility, or sufficiency of evidence (not necessarily a criminal case)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: New Jersey
  • Respondent type: Probationer, or parolee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 473 U.S. 716
  • 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: Harry Blackmun

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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