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UNITED STATES ex rel. JENNINGS v. RAGEN, WARDEN (1959)

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UNITED STATES ex rel. JENNINGS v. RAGEN, WARDEN
Term: 1958
Important Dates
Decided: January 12, 1959
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • William Douglas • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker

UNITED STATES ex rel. JENNINGS v. RAGEN, WARDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 12, 1959.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Involuntary confession
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Illinois
  • Citation: 358 U.S. 276
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • 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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