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VALDEZ v. UNITED STATES (1917)
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| VALDEZ v. UNITED STATES |
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| Term: 1916 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: April 23, 1917 |
| Decided: June 11, 1917 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 7-2 |
| Majority |
| Louis Dembitz Brandeis • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter |
| Dissenting |
| John Hessin Clarke • Edward Douglass White |
VALDEZ v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 11, 1917. The case was argued before the court on April 23, 1917.
In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Philippines Territorial Trial Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: presentation, admissibility, or sufficiency of evidence (not necessarily a criminal case)
- Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: United States
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 244 U.S. 432
- How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
- What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
- Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph McKenna
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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