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SANSONE v. UNITED STATES (1965)

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SANSONE v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1964
Important Dates
Argued: March 10, 1965
Decided: March 29, 1965
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
William Brennan • Tom Clark • Arthur Goldberg • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Byron White
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas

SANSONE v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 29, 1965. The case was argued before the court on March 10, 1965.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Extra-legal jury influences: jury instructions (not necessarily in criminal cases)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 380 U.S. 343
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Arthur Goldberg

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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