Briscoe v. LaHue
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| Briscoe v. LaHue | ||||||||||
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| Argued November 9, 1982 Decided March 7, 1983 |
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| Holding | ||||||||||
| A defendant in a criminal trial is not entitled to civil damages for perjured testimony against him. | ||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor |
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| Majority by: Stevens Joined by: Burger, White, Powell, Rehnquist and O'Connon Dissent by: Brennan Dissent by: Marshall Joined by: Blackmun Dissent by: Blackmun |
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| Laws applied | ||||||||||
| Title 42 U.S.C. 1983 | ||||||||||
Briscoe v. LaHue, was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which the court held that Title 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 did not authorize a convicted state defendant to assert a claim for damages against a police officer for giving perjured testimony at the defendant's criminal trial.
[edit] See also
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 460
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