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MARYLAND v. JERRY LEE WILSON

Term: 1996
Important Dates
Argued: December 11, 1996
Decided: February 19, 1997
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Anthony Kennedy • John Paul Stevens

MARYLAND v. JERRY LEE WILSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 19, 1997. The case was argued before the court on December 11, 1996.

In a 7-2 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 Maryland State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Search and seizure, vehicles
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: Maryland
Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 519 U.S. 408
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.

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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