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WILLIAM DUNCAN, WARDEN v. ROBERT E. HENRY (1995)

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WILLIAM DUNCAN, WARDEN v. ROBERT E. HENRY
Term: 1994
Important Dates
Decided: January 23, 1995
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • David Souter
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

WILLIAM DUNCAN, WARDEN v. ROBERT E. HENRY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 23, 1995.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 513 U.S. 364
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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