MABRY, COMMISSIONER, ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION v. JOHNSON (1984) - Ballotpedia

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MABRY, COMMISSIONER, ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION v. JOHNSON

Term: 1983
Important Dates
Argued: April 16, 1984
Decided: June 11, 1984
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

MABRY, COMMISSIONER, ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION v. JOHNSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 11, 1984. The case was argued before the court on April 16, 1984.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas Eastern 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: 467 U.S. 504
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
Who wrote the majority opinion: John Paul Stevens

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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External links

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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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