Opinion

Bowers v. Missouri State Employees' Retirement System Board of Trustees

  • 522 U.S. 953
  • 66 U.S.L.W. 3323
  • 118 S. Ct. 376
  • 139 L. Ed. 2d 293
  • 1997 U.S. LEXIS 6612
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Nov 3, 1997
Status
Published
Cited by
41 cases
Authority
More cited than 91.2%

no personal waiver by defendant is expressly required to waive the right to a public criminal trial

How later courts described this case

  • no personal waiver by defendant is expressly required to waive the right to a public criminal trial
  • victim beaten and stabbed 43 times

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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