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PATTON et al. v. YOUNT (1984)

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PATTON et al. v. YOUNT
Term: 1983
Important Dates
Argued: February 28, 1984
Decided: June 26, 1984
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • John Paul Stevens

PATTON et al. v. YOUNT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 26, 1984. The case was argued before the court on February 28, 1984.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Extra-legal jury influences: pretrial publicity
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Pennsylvania
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 467 U.S. 1025
  • 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: Lewis Powell

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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