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· 6/22/1987

Ricketts v. Adamson

Citations

  • 483 U.S. 1
  • 107 S. Ct. 2680
  • 97 L. Ed. 2d 1
  • 1987 U.S. LEXIS 2866
  • 55 U.S.L.W. 4914

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the interpretation of a state court plea agreement is, “within broad bounds of reasonableness, [a] matter[ ] of state law”
  • noting that the defendant’s argulnent that his plea agreement did not require him to testify was “an interpretation of the agreement that proved erroneous”
  • “[T]he construction of [a] plea agreement and the concomitant obligations flowing therefrom are, within broad bounds of reasonableness, matters of state law.”

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Judges: White, Rehnquist, Powell, O'Connor, Scalia, Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens

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