Adams v. Texas

Adams v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 24, 1980 Decided June 25, 1980
Full case name: Randall Dale Adams v. State of Texas
Holding
Court membership
Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens
Case opinions

Adams v. Texas, 448 U.S. 38 (1980),^[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held 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 were the subject of a partially-autobiographical book of the same name, and were featured in the movie The Thin Blue Line.

[edit] See also

• Randall Dale Adams

[edit] References

1. ^ 448 U.S. 38 Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.

[edit] External links

• Adams v. The Death Penalty

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