Concurrence Burger | End date 1980 | |
Full case name Randall Dale Adams v. State of Texas Citations 448 U.S. 38 (more)
100 S.Ct. 2521, 65 L.Ed.2d 581 Prior history Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas Subsequent history 577 S. W. 2d 717, reversed. Majority White, joined by Brennan, Stewart, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens Ruling court Supreme Court of the United States People also search for Wainwright v. Witt, Morgan v. Illinois | ||
Adams v. Texas, 448 U.S. 38 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held on an 8–1 vote that, consistent with its prior opinion in Witherspoon v. Illinois, a Texas requirement that jurors swear an oath that the mandatory imposition of a death sentence would not interfere with their consideration of factual matters such as guilt or innocence during a trial was unconstitutional.
The surrounding factual issues (involving defendant Randall Dale Adams) were the subject of a partially autobiographical book of the same name, and were featured in the 1988 movie The Thin Blue Line.
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