UNITED STATES v. VALENZUELA-BERNAL (1982)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
UNITED STATES v. VALENZUELA-BERNAL
Term: 1981
Important Dates
Argued: April 20, 1982
Decided: July 2, 1982
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Concurring
Harry Blackmun • Sandra Day O'Connor
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall

UNITED STATES v. VALENZUELA-BERNAL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on July 2, 1982. The case was argued before the court on April 20, 1982.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Confrontation (right to confront accuser, call and cross-examine witnesses)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 458 U.S. 858
  • 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: William Rehnquist

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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