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UNITED STATES v. WILSON (1975)

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UNITED STATES v. WILSON
Term: 1974
Important Dates
Argued: December 9, 1974
Decided: February 25, 1975
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • William Douglas

UNITED STATES v. WILSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 1975. The case was argued before the court on December 9, 1974.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Double jeopardy
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 420 U.S. 332
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Thurgood Marshall

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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