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SALVADOR GODINEZ, WARDEN v. RICHARD ALLAN MORAN (1993)

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SALVADOR GODINEZ, WARDEN v. RICHARD ALLAN MORAN
Term: 1992
Important Dates
Argued: April 21, 1993
Decided: June 24, 1993
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • David Souter • Clarence Thomas • Byron White
Concurring
Anthony Kennedy • Antonin Scalia
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • John Paul Stevens

SALVADOR GODINEZ, WARDEN v. RICHARD ALLAN MORAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 24, 1993. The case was argued before the court on April 21, 1993.

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 Nevada U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1990s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Plea bargaining: the constitutionality of and/or the circumstances of its exercise
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Nevada
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 509 U.S. 389
  • 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: Clarence Thomas

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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