Jaime Caetano v. Massachusetts | |
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Decided March 21, 2016 | |
Full case name | Jaime Caetano v. Massachusetts |
Docket no. | 14-10078 |
Citations | 577 U.S. 411 (more) 136 S. Ct. 1027; 194 L. Ed. 2d 99; 2016 U.S. LEXIS 1862 |
Opinion announcement | Opinion announcement |
Case history | |
Prior | On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Procedural | Motion to dismiss denied, sub nom. Commonwealth v. Caetano, No. 1149-CR-2522 (Mass. Dist. Ct. April 29, 2013); defendant convicted, No. 1149-CR-2522, Mass. Dist. Ct.; aff'd, 26 N. E. 3d 688 (Mass. 2015) |
Holding | |
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts' erred in upholding a law that prohibited the possession of stun guns | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Per curiam | |
Concurrence | Alito (in judgment), joined by Thomas |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. II; Mass. Gen. Laws, ch. 140, §131J (2014) |
Caetano v. Massachusetts, 577 U.S. 411 (2016), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously vacated a Massachusetts conviction of a woman who carried a stun gun for self-defense.[1]
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