JOHNNY LYNN OLD CHIEF v. UNITED STATES (1997)

JOHNNY LYNN OLD CHIEF v. UNITED STATES
	Term: 1996
Important Dates
	Argued: October 16, 1996
	Decided: January 14, 1997
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	5-4
Majority
	Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • David Souter • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
	Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

JOHNNY LYNN OLD CHIEF v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 14, 1997. The case was argued before the court on October 16, 1996.

In a 5-4 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 Montana U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: presentation, admissibility, or sufficiency of evidence (not necessarily a criminal case)
Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 519 U.S. 172
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: David Souter

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.