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COOL v. UNITED STATES (1972)

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COOL v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1972
Important Dates
Decided: December 4, 1972
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
William Brennan • William Douglas • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • William Rehnquist

COOL v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 4, 1972.

In a 6-3 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 Indiana Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Extra-legal jury influences: jury instructions (not necessarily in criminal cases)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 409 U.S. 100
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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