Parker v. North Carolina

Parker v. North Carolina
Parker v. North Carolina
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 17, 1969; Decided May 4, 1970
Full case name	Parker v. North Carolina
Citations	397 U.S. 790 (more) 90 S. Ct. 1458; 25 L. Ed. 2d 785; 1970 U.S. LEXIS 47
Court membership
	Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas; John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr.; Potter Stewart · Byron White; Thurgood Marshall
Case opinions
Majority	White, joined by Burger, Harlan, Stewart
Concurrence	Black
Dissent	Brennan, joined by Douglas, Marshall

Parker v. North Carolina, 397 U.S. 790 (1970), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a plea agreement was valid even if the defendant entered into it in order to avoid the death penalty and even if his decision was based on a possibly mistaken belief on the part of the defendant and his lawyer that a confession the defendant had made would be admissible in court.[1]

References

Lamb, Charles M.; Halpern, Stephen C. (1991). The Burger Court: Political and Judicial Profiles. University of Illinois Press. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-252-06135-6.

External links

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[1] Lamb, Charles M.; Halpern, Stephen C. (1991). The Burger Court: Political and Judicial Profiles. University of Illinois Press. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-252-06135-6.