Home > Great American Court Cases > Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard

Legal Citation: 118 S.Ct. 1244 (1998)

Petitioners
Ohio Adult Parole Authority, et al.

Respondent
Eugene Woodard

Petitioners' Claim
That Ohio clemency procedures violated a death-row inmate's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioners
Jeffrey S. Sutton

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
David H. Bodiker

Justices for the Court
Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony M. Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, William H. Rehnquist (writing for the Court), Antonin Scalia, David H. Souter, Clarence Thomas

Justices Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
25 March 1998

Decision
Reversed the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Held that neither the...