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DOWNUM v. UNITED STATES (1963)

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DOWNUM v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1962
Important Dates
Argued: March 20, 1963
Decided: April 22, 1963
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Arthur Goldberg • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Tom Clark • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Byron White

DOWNUM v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 22, 1963. The case was argued before the court on March 20, 1963.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren 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: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 372 U.S. 734
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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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