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FREDERICK MATHEWS v. UNITED STATES (1988)

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FREDERICK MATHEWS v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1987
Important Dates
Argued: December 2, 1987
Decided: February 24, 1988
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens
Concurring
William Brennan • Antonin Scalia
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • Byron White

FREDERICK MATHEWS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 24, 1988. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1987.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Wisconsin Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: entrapment
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 485 U.S. 58
  • 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: William Rehnquist

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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