Torres v. Puerto RICO (442 U.S. 465)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 18, 1979 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 442 U.S. 465 · 99 S. Ct. 2425
- Decided
- June 18, 1979
- Term
- October Term 1978
- Vote
- 9–0
- 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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