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TRONO v. UNITED STATES (1905)

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TRONO v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1905
Important Dates
Argued: October 31, 1905
Decided: December 4, 1905
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

TRONO v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 4, 1905. The case was argued before the court on October 31, 1905.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Double jeopardy
  • Petitioner: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 199 U.S. 521
  • 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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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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