Beck v. Alabama (447 U.S. 625)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 20, 1980 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 447 U.S. 625 · 100 S. Ct. 2382
- Decided
- June 20, 1980
- Term
- October Term 1979
- Vote
- 7–2
- Majority author
- Justice Stevens
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
- Constitutional ruling
- State/territorial law held unconstitutional
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