Legal Opinion
Apodaca v. Oregon
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 22, 1972No. 69-5046PublishedCited by 790 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice White, joined by The Chief Justice, Justice Blackmun, and Justice Rehnquist
Robert Apodaca, Henry Morgan Cooper, Jr., and James Arnold Madden were convicted respectively of assault with a deadly weapon, burglary in a dwelling, and *406grand larceny before separate Oregon juries, all of which returned less-than-unanimous verdicts. The vote in the cases of Apodaca and Madden was 11-1, while the vote in the case of Cooper was 10-2, the minimum requisite vote under Oregon law for sustaining a conviction.1 After their convictions had been affirmed by the Oregon Court of Appeals, 1 Ore. App. 483, 462 P. 2d 691 (1969), and review had been denied by the Supreme Court of Oregon,…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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3Cited by790 opinions
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