Adams v. Texas

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Litigants=Adams v. Texas
ArgueDate=March 24
ArgueYear=1980
DecideDate=June 25
DecideYear=1980
FullName=Randall Dale Adams v. State of Texas
USVol=448
USPage=38
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"Adams v. Texas", 448 U.S. 38 (1980), [ [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=448&page=38 448 U.S. 38] Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.] 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.

ee also

*Randall Dale Adams

References

External links

* [http://www.truthinjustice.org/adams.htm Adams v. The Death Penalty]