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COLORADO v. SPRING (1987)

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COLORADO v. SPRING
Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: December 9, 1986
Decided: January 27, 1987
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall

COLORADO v. SPRING is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 27, 1987. The case was argued before the court on December 9, 1986.

In a 7-2 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 Colorado State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Involuntary confession
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Colorado
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 479 U.S. 564
  • 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: Lewis Powell

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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