RICKY BELL, WARDEN v. GARY BRADFORD CONE (2002)

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RICKY BELL, WARDEN v. GARY BRADFORD CONE
Term: 2001
Important Dates
Argued: March 25, 2002
Decided: May 28, 2002
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-1
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

RICKY BELL, WARDEN v. GARY BRADFORD CONE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 28, 2002. The case was argued before the court on March 25, 2002.

In an 8-1 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 Tennessee Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Tennessee
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 535 U.S. 685
  • 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.

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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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