SANDERS v. UNITED STATES (1963)

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SANDERS v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1962
Important Dates
Argued: February 25, 1963
Decided: April 29, 1963
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Arthur Goldberg • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren
Concurring
Byron White
Dissenting
Tom Clark • John Harlan II

SANDERS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 29, 1963. The case was argued before the court on February 25, 1963.

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 California Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: Person allegedly criminally insane or mentally incompetent to stand trial
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 373 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Brennan

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.

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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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