Michigan v. Bryant

Michigan v. Bryant
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 5, 2010 Decided February 28, 2011
Full case name	Michigan v. Richard Perry Bryant
Docket nos.	09-150
Prior history	Defendant convicted at trial; affirmed, case n°247039, 2004 WL 1882661 (Mich. Ct. App., 2004); vacated and remanded in light of Davis v. Washington, 477 Mich. 902, 722 N.W.2d 797 (2006); affirmed anew, case n°247039, 2007 WL 675471 (Mich. Ct. App., 2006); reversed, 483 Mich. 132, 768 N.W.2d 65 (2009)
Subsequent history	Remanded to Michigan Supreme Court.
Argument	Oral argument
Holding
The statement was not testimonial and thus its admission did not violate the Confrontation Clause.
Court membership
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Sotomayor, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Breyer, and Alito
Concurrence	Thomas
Dissent	Scalia
Dissent	Ginsburg

Michigan v. Bryant, 131 S. Ct. 1143 (2011), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court on February 28, 2011. The case concerns a criminal defendant's Confrontation Clause right regarding statements made by a deceased declarant.

Factual background

Richard Perry Bryant was convicted of second-degree murder in part on the basis of a hearsay statement made by the victim identifying Bryant as the perpetrator. That statement was introduced at his trial and used against him. Bryant challenged the use of the statement because he had had no prior opportunity to cross-examine the declarant, which he argued was a violation of his right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment, as interpreted in Crawford v. Washington and Davis v. Washington.

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Decision

The Supreme Court held that the victim's statements were not testimonial and that they were properly admitted at trial. ^[1]

References

1. ^ Michigan v. Bryant, No. 09-150, slip op. at 1 (2011).

External links

• Michigan v. Bryant Resource Page Containing background materials and links to key materials on the case.
• Slip opinion from the Supreme Court
• Opinion by the Michigan Supreme Court
• Michigan v. Bryant coverage on SCOTUSblog