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SECUNDINO MENDEZONA Y MENDEZONA v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1903
Important Dates
Argued: April 21, 1904
Decided: May 31, 1904
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

SECUNDINO MENDEZONA Y MENDEZONA v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 31, 1904. The case was argued before the court on April 21, 1904.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Philippines Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Double jeopardy
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 195 U.S. 158
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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 liberal.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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