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MICHAEL YARBOROUGH, WARDEN, et al.'S v. LIONEL E. GENTRY (2003)

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MICHAEL YARBOROUGH, WARDEN, et al.'S v. LIONEL E. GENTRY
Term: 2003
Important Dates
Decided: October 20, 2003
Outcome
Reversed
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

MICHAEL YARBOROUGH, WARDEN, et al.'S v. LIONEL E. GENTRY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 20, 2003.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Central U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Right to counsel (cf. indigents appointment of counsel or inadequate representation)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 540 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • 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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