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JENKINS v. DELAWARE (1969)

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JENKINS v. DELAWARE
Term: 1968
Important Dates
Argued: March 5, 1969
Decided: June 2, 1969
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Byron White
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • John Harlan II

JENKINS v. DELAWARE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 2, 1969. The case was argued before the court on March 5, 1969.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Delaware State Trial 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 - Retroactivity (of newly announced or newly enacted constitutional or statutory rights)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Delaware
  • Citation: 395 U.S. 213
  • 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: Earl Warren

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.

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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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