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Legal Citation: 406 U.S. 404 (1972)

Petitioners
Robert Apodaca, Henry Morgan Cooper, Jr., and James Arnold Madden

Respondent
State of Oregon

Petitioners' Claim
That conviction by a less than unanimous jury verdict, permitted under Oregon state law, violated the right to trial by jury as guaranteed under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioners
Richard B. Sobol

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
Jacob B. Tanzer, Solicitor General of Oregon

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, Warren E. Burger, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist, Byron R. White (writing for the Court)

Justices Dissenting
William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
22 May 1972