Dawson v. Delaware
| Dawson v. Delaware | |
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| Argued November 12, 1991 Decided March 9, 1992 | |
| Full case name | Dawson v. Delaware, Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Delaware |
| Citations | 503 U.S. 159 (more) 112 S. Ct. 1093; 117 L. Ed. 2d 309 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Dawson v. State, 581 A.2d 1078 (Del. 1990) |
| Holding | |
| The petitioner's First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by the admission of evidence at sentencing that had no relevance to the case. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Rehnquist, joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter |
| Concurrence | Blackmun |
| Dissent | Thomas |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV | |
Dawson v. Delaware, 503 U.S. 159 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court decision that ruled that a person's rights of association and due process, as granted under the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, cannot be infringed upon if such an association has no bearing on the case at hand.