Draft:Wood v. Georgia (1981)

Wood v. Georgia
Wood v. Georgia
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 4, 1980; Decided March 4, 1981
Full case name	Raymond WOOD et al v. State of Georgia
Citations	450 U.S. 261 (more) L. Ed. 2d 220, 101 S. Ct. 1097
Holding
	Equal Protection inapplicable in this case; remanded to lower court for possible due process violation.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart; Byron White · Thurgood Marshall; Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr.; William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Powell, joined by Burger, Stewart, Rehnquist, Blackmun
Concurrence	Stevens
Concur/dissent	Brennan, Marshall,
Dissent	White

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Wood v. Georgia, 450 U.S. 261 (1981), was a United States Supreme Court decision revolving around potential Fourteenth Amendment violations regarding the imprisonment of probationer(s) solely on the inability to pay installments for fines.

Decision

In a 6–3 majority delivered by Justice Powell, the Court ruled that due to the conflict of interest of the petitioners' counsel, the possibilities of due process violations apply over the question of equal protection in this case. Thus the case was remanded to resolve those issues.^[1]

References

^ Analyses of Wood v. Georgia, 450 U.S. 261 Casetext

External links

Text of Wood v. Georgia, 450 U.S. 261 (1981) is available from: Cornell Findlaw Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)

[1] Analyses of Wood v. Georgia, 450 U.S. 261 Casetext

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