UNITED STATES EX REL. SMITH v. BALDI, SUPERINTENDENT, PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON (1953)

UNITED STATES EX REL. SMITH v. BALDI, SUPERINTENDENT, PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON
	Term: 1952
Important Dates
	Argued: April 29, 1952
	Decided: February 9, 1953
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	6-3
Majority
	Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
	Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter

UNITED STATES EX REL. SMITH v. BALDI, SUPERINTENDENT, PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 9, 1953. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1952.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Plea bargaining: the constitutionality of and/or the circumstances of its exercise
Petitioner: Person allegedly criminally insane or mentally incompetent to stand trial
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Pennsylvania
Citation: 344 U.S. 561
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Reed

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.