MARLON LATODD HOWELL, AKA MARLON COX v. MISSISSIPPI (2005)

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MARLON LATODD HOWELL, AKA MARLON COX v. MISSISSIPPI
Term: 2004
Important Dates
Argued: November 29, 2004
Decided: January 24, 2005
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas

MARLON LATODD HOWELL, AKA MARLON COX v. MISSISSIPPI is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 24, 2005. The case was argued before the court on November 29, 2004.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Mississippi State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Mississippi
  • Citation: 543 U.S. 440
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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