TRUESDALE v. AIKEN, WARDEN, et al. (1987)

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TRUESDALE v. AIKEN, WARDEN, et al.
Term: 1986
Important Dates
Decided: March 23, 1987
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist

TRUESDALE v. AIKEN, WARDEN, et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 23, 1987.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Retroactivity (of newly announced or newly enacted constitutional or statutory rights)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: South Carolina
  • Citation: 480 U.S. 527
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • 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 liberal.

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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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