“Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple— get a warrant.”
J. Roberts
Alleyne v. United States, No. 11-9335, __ U.S. __ (June 17, 2013).
“[A]ny fact that increases the mandatory minimum [sentence] is an ‘element’ that must be submitted to the jury.”
Missouri v. McNeely, No. 11–1425, __U.S. __ (April 17, 2013).
Rejects argument that “the natural metabolization of alcohol in the bloodstream presents a per se exigency that justifies an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement for nonconsensual blood testing in all drunk-driving cases,” and holds instead “that exigency in this context must be determined case by case based on the totality of the circumstances.”
Blueford v. Arkansas, No. 10–1320, 566 U.S. ____ (May 24, 2012).
The jury foreperson’s report that the jury was unanimous regarding the charges of capital murder and first-degree murder in his favor was not a final resolution when the trial ended in a mistrial, and so the Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar retrying defendant on those charges.
Smith v. Cain, No. 10–8145, 565 U.S. __ (Jan. 20, 2012).
State’s failure to disclose to defense the sole eyewitness’s pre-trial statement to detective that he could not identify any of the gunmen, when eyewitness identified defendant at trial as the first gunman, violated the due process prosecution disclosure rule of Brady v. Maryland.