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UNITED STATES v. CARIGNAN (1951)

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UNITED STATES v. CARIGNAN |
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Term: 1951 |
Important Dates |
Argued: October 8, 1951 |
Decided: November 13, 1951 |
Outcome |
Affirmed (includes modified) |
Vote |
5-3 |
Majority |
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson |
Dissenting |
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter |
UNITED STATES v. CARIGNAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 13, 1951. The case was argued before the court on October 8, 1951.
In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Alaska Alaska U.S. District Court.
For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.
About the case
- Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Involuntary confession
- Petitioner: United States
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 342 U.S. 36
- 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.
See also
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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