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TENNESSEE v. DONALD RAY MIDDLEBROOKS (1993)

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TENNESSEE v. DONALD RAY MIDDLEBROOKS
Term: 1993
Important Dates
Argued: November 1, 1993
Decided: December 13, 1993
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun

TENNESSEE v. DONALD RAY MIDDLEBROOKS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 13, 1993. The case was argued before the court on November 1, 1993.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Tennessee State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Tennessee
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 510 U.S. 124
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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