HUTTO, ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION COMMISSIONER v. ROSS (1976) - Ballotpedia

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HUTTO, ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION COMMISSIONER v. ROSS

Term: 1976
Important Dates
Decided: November 1, 1976
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-1
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
Potter Stewart

HUTTO, ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION COMMISSIONER v. ROSS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 1, 1976.

In an 8-1 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 Arkansas Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Plea bargaining: the constitutionality of and/or the circumstances of its exercise
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: Arkansas
Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 429 U.S. 28
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 conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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