RONALD D. EDWARDS, WARDEN v. ROBERT W. CARPENTER (2000)

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RONALD D. EDWARDS, WARDEN v. ROBERT W. CARPENTER
Term: 1999
Important Dates
Argued: February 28, 2000
Decided: April 25, 2000
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Stephen Breyer • John Paul Stevens

RONALD D. EDWARDS, WARDEN v. ROBERT W. CARPENTER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 25, 2000. The case was argued before the court on February 28, 2000.

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 Ohio Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Ohio
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 529 U.S. 446
  • 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: Antonin Scalia

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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