Solem v. Stumes

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued November 28, 1983
Decided February 29, 1984

Full case name

Solem, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary v. Norman Stumes

Citations

104 S. Ct. 1338; 79 L. Ed. 2d 579; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 36; 52 U.S.L.W. 4307

Court membership

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger

Associate Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell, Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor

Case opinions

Majority

White, joined by Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist, O'Connor

Concurrence

Powell

Dissent

Stevens, joined by Brennan, Marshall

Solem v. Stumes, 465 U.S. 638 (1984), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that its decision in Edwards v. Arizona (1980) should not be applied retroactively.

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