Brady v. United States

Brady v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 18, 1969 Decided May 4, 1970
Full case name	Robert Malvais Brady v. United States
Citations	397 U.S. 742 (more) 90 S. Ct. 1463, 25 L. Ed. 2d 747
Case history
Prior	404 F.2d 601 (10th Cir. 1968); cert. granted, 395 U.S. 976 (1969).
Subsequent	On remand, 433 F.2d 924 (10th Cir. 1970).
Holding
The threat of the death penalty is not coercive if the guilty plea is made intelligently and willingly.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall
Case opinions
Majority	White, joined by Burger, Harlan, Stewart
Concurrence	Black
Concurrence	Brennan, joined by Douglas, Marshall
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. V Federal Kidnapping Act

Brady v. United States, 397 U.S. 742 (1970), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court refused to hold that large sentencing discounts and threats of the death penalty are sufficient evidence of coercion.^[1]