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JOHN ANGUS SMITH v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1992
Important Dates
Argued: March 23, 1993
Decided: May 24, 1993
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Clarence Thomas • Byron White
Concurring
Harry Blackmun
Dissenting
Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens

JOHN ANGUS SMITH v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 24, 1993. The case was argued before the court on March 23, 1993.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Florida Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: firearms
Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 508 U.S. 223
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: Sandra Day O'Connor

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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