Davis v. United States (2011)

Davis v. United States
Davis v. United States
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 21, 2011; Decided June 16, 2011
Full case name	Willie Gene Davis v. United States
Docket no.	09-11328
Citations	564 U.S. 229 (more) 131 S. Ct. 2419; 180 L. Ed. 2d 285
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	United States v. Davis, No. 2:07-cr-0248-WKW, 2008 WL 1927377 (M.D. Ala. 2008) (denying motion to suppress), aff'd, 598 F.3d 1259 (11th Cir. 2010), cert. granted, 131 S. Ct. 502 (2010).
Holding
	Searches conducted in objectively reasonable reliance on binding appellate precedent are not subject to the exclusionary rule.
Court membership
	Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy; Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito; Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Alito, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Kagan
Concurrence	Sotomayor
Dissent	Breyer, joined by Ginsburg
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. IV

Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. 229 (2011), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States "[held] that searches conducted in objectively reasonable reliance on binding appellate precedent are not subject to the exclusionary rule".[1]

References

Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. ___, 131 S. Ct. 2419, 2423–24 (2011).

External links

Text of Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. 229 (2011) is available from: Justia Oyez (oral argument audio) Supreme Court (slip opinion)

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[1] Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. ___, 131 S. Ct. 2419, 2423–24 (2011).