Davis v. Washington

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Davis v. Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 20, 2006 Decided June 19, 2006
Full case name: Adrian Martell Davis, Petitioner v. Washington; Hershel Hammon, Petitioner v. Indiana Citations: 547 U.S. ___; 126 S. Ct. 2266; 165 L. Ed. 2d 224; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 4886; 74 U.S.L.W. 4356; 19 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 299 Prior history: On writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Washington; on writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Indiana; State v. Davis, 154 Wn.2d 291, 111 P.3d 844, 2005 Wash. LEXIS 462 (2005) Hammon v. State, 829 N.E.2d 444, 2005 Ind. LEXIS 541 (Ind., 2005) Subsequent history: On remand at, Remanded by Hammon v. State, 2006 Ind. LEXIS 793 (Ind., Sept. 7, 2006)
Holding
Court membership
Chief Justice: John Roberts Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority by: Scalia Joined by: Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, Roberts, Alito Concurrence/dissent by: Thomas
Laws applied
Crawford v. Washington

Davis v. Washington, 547 U.S. ___ (2006), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the usage of 911 phone calls as testimony.

Contents 1 Facts of the Case 2 The Court's Decision 2.1 Scalia's Majority Opinion 2.2 Thomas's Concurrence/Dissent 3 External links

[edit] Facts of the Case

[edit] The Court's Decision

[edit] Scalia's Majority Opinion

[edit] Thomas's Concurrence/Dissent

[edit] External links

• Decision at Supreme Court websitePDF (318 KiB)