MARCUS THORNTON v. UNITED STATES (2004)

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MARCUS THORNTON v. UNITED STATES
Term: 2003
Important Dates
Argued: March 31, 2004
Decided: May 24, 2004
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Anthony Kennedy • William Rehnquist • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Sandra Day O'Connor • Antonin Scalia
Dissenting
David Souter • John Paul Stevens

MARCUS THORNTON v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 24, 2004. The case was argued before the court on March 31, 2004.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Search and seizure, vehicles
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 541 U.S. 615
  • 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: William Rehnquist

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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