Adams v. Texas

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 (involving defendant Randall Dale Adams ) were the subject of a partially autobiographical book of the same name, and were featured in the 1988 movie _The Thin Blue Line _.

Further reading

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• Gillers, Stephen (1985). "Proving the Prejudice of Death-Qualified Juries after Adams v. Texas". University of Pittsburgh Law Review. 47 (1): 219–255.

External links

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• Text of Adams v. Texas, 448 U.S. 38 (1980) is available from: Google Scholar Internet Archive (docket files) Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)

• Adams v. The Death Penalty

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