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JACKSON v. DENNO, WARDEN (1964)

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JACKSON v. DENNO, WARDEN
Term: 1963
Important Dates
Argued: December 9, 1963
Decided: June 22, 1964
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
William Brennan • William Douglas • Arthur Goldberg • Earl Warren • Byron White
Concurring
Hugo Black
Dissenting
Tom Clark • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart

JACKSON v. DENNO, WARDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 22, 1964. The case was argued before the court on December 9, 1963.

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 New York Southern 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 - Involuntary confession
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: New York
  • Citation: 378 U.S. 368
  • 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: Byron White

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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