WESLEY AARON SHAFER, JR. v. SOUTH CAROLINA (2001) - Ballotpedia

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WESLEY AARON SHAFER, JR. v. SOUTH CAROLINA

Term: 2000
Important Dates
Argued: January 9, 2001
Decided: March 20, 2001
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • David Souter • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

WESLEY AARON SHAFER, JR. v. SOUTH CAROLINA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 20, 2001. The case was argued before the court on January 9, 2001.

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 South Carolina State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Extra-legal jury influences: jury instructions (not necessarily in criminal cases)
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: South Carolina
Citation: 532 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: William Rehnquist
Who wrote the majority opinion: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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