O'CONNOR ET UX.

v.

UNITED STATES; COPLIN ET UX. V. UNITED STATES; AND MATTOX ET UX. V. UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (U.S. 1986)
  …Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Brennan joins, concurring. In his dissenting opinion, The Chief Justice correctly identifies an apparent inconsistency between my criticism of the Court’s action in Colorado v. Connelly, 474 U. S. 1050 (1986) (memorandum of Brennan, J., joined by Stevens, J.), and New Jersey v. T. L. O., 468 U. S. 1214 (1984) (Stevens, J., dissenting) — cases in which the Court directed the State to brief and argue questions not presented in its petition [*109] fo…

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• Colorado v. Connelly, 479 U.S. 157 (U.S. 1986)
  …a confession when the mental state of the defendant, at the time he made the confession, interfered with his “rational intellect” and his “free will.” Because this decision seemed to conflict with prior holdings of this Court, we granted certiorari. 474 U. S. 1050 (1986). We conclude that the admissibility of this kind of statement is governed by state rules of evidence, rather than by our previous decisions regarding coerced confessions and Miranda waivers. We therefore reverse. [*160] I On August 18, 1983,…

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• O'Connor et ux. v. United States, 479 U.S. 27 (U.S. 1986)
  …of the Panama Canal Commission and their spouses, seek refunds of income taxes collected on salaries paid by the Commission between 1979 and 1981. We granted certiorari to resolve conflicting appellate interpretations of an international agreement. 474 U. S. 1050 (1986). From 1904 to 1979, the United States exercised sovereignty over the Panama Canal and the surrounding 10-mile-wide Panama Canal Zone under the Isthmian Canal Convention, 38 Stat. 2234. On September 7, 1977, the United States and Panama signe…