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Tompkins v. Texas

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Court: Supreme Court of the United States

Citations: 109 S. Ct. 2180, 490 U.S. 754, 104 L. Ed. 2d 834, 1989 U.S. LEXIS 2755

Decision Date: 8/11/1989

Docket Number: 87-6405

Bluebook Citation: Tompkins v. Texas, 109 S. Ct. 2180, 490 U.S. 754, 104 L. Ed. 2d 834, 1989 U.S. LEXIS 2755 (SCOTUS 1989)

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490 U.S. 754 (1989)

TOMPKINS
v.
TEXAS

No. 87-6405.

Supreme Court of United States.

Argued December 6, 1988
Decided June 5, 1989
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS

Emmett B. Lewis argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Robert K. Huffman and James B. Altman.

Charles A. Palmer, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Jim Mattox, Attorney General, Mary F. Keller, First Assistant Attorney General, Lou McCreary, Executive Assistant Attorney General, and Michael P. Hodge and Margaret Portman Griffey, Assistant Attorneys General.[*]

PER CURIAM.

The judgment below is affirmed by an equally divided Court.

JUSTICE O'CONNOR took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.

NOTES

[*] Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. by Steven R. Shapiro, John A. Powell, Julius LeVonne Chambers, and Charles Stephen Ralston; and for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law by Robert E. Montgomery, Jr., Conrad K. Harper, Stuart J. Land, Norman Redlich, William L. Robinson, and Judith A. Winston.

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