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PAUL RENICO, WARDEN v. REGINALD LETT (2010)

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PAUL RENICO, WARDEN v. REGINALD LETT
Term: 2009
Important Dates
Argued: March 29, 2010
Decided: May 3, 2010
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Samuel Alito • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Stephen Breyer • Sonia Sotomayor • John Paul Stevens

PAUL RENICO, WARDEN v. REGINALD LETT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 3, 2010. The case was argued before the court on March 29, 2010.

In a 6-3 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 Michigan Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Michigan
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 559 U.S. 766
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Roberts

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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