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FRANCIS, WARDEN v. FRANKLIN (1985)

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FRANCIS, WARDEN v. FRANKLIN
Term: 1984
Important Dates
Argued: November 28, 1984
Decided: April 29, 1985
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist

FRANCIS, WARDEN v. FRANKLIN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 29, 1985. The case was argued before the court on November 28, 1984.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia Middle U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Extra-legal jury influences: jury instructions (not necessarily in criminal cases)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Georgia
  • Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 471 U.S. 307
  • 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: William Brennan

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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