Lockett v. Ohio (438 U.S. 586)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided July 3, 1978 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 438 U.S. 586 · 98 S. Ct. 2954
- Decided
- July 3, 1978
- Term
- October Term 1977
- Vote
- 7–1
- Majority author
- Justice Burger
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
- Constitutional ruling
- State/territorial law held unconstitutional
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