Adams v. Texas
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adams-v-texas-311-16655108
title:
Adams v. Texas
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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 were the subject of a partially autobiographical book of the sa
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1980 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_v._Texas
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2023-09-13T01:43:28Z
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