Buck v. Davis
2017 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. ___ (2017), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court reversed the death sentence of the defendant Duane Buck after the defendant's attorney introduced evidence that suggested the defendant would be more likely to commit violent acts in the future because he was black.[1]
Quick Facts Buck v. Davis, Argued October 5, 2016 Decided February 22, 2017 ...
Buck v. Davis | |
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Argued October 5, 2016 Decided February 22, 2017 | |
Full case name | Duane Edward Buck v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Docket no. | 15-8049 |
Citations | 580 U.S. ___ (more) 137 S. Ct. 759; 197 L. Ed. 2d 1 |
Case history | |
Prior | Buck v. Stephens, 623 F. App'x 668 (5th Cir. 2015); cert. granted, 136 S. Ct. 2409 (2016). |
Procedural | On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
Subsequent | 865 F.3d 215 (5th Cir. 2017) |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Roberts, joined by Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan |
Dissent | Thomas, joined by Alito |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. VI |
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