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SAWYER v. SMITH, INTERIM WARDEN (1990)

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SAWYER v. SMITH, INTERIM WARDEN
Term: 1989
Important Dates
Argued: April 25, 1990
Decided: June 21, 1990
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

SAWYER v. SMITH, INTERIM WARDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 21, 1990. The case was argued before the court on April 25, 1990.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Louisiana
  • Citation: 497 U.S. 227
  • 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: Anthony Kennedy

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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