Burt v. Titlow

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Burt v. Titlow
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 8, 2013 Decided November 5, 2013
Full case name	Sherry L. Burt, Warden, Petitioner v. Vonlee Nicole Titlow
Docket no.	12-414
Citations	571 U.S. 12 (more) 134 S. Ct. 10; 187 L. Ed. 2d 348; 2013 U.S. LEXIS 8039; 82 U.S.L.W. 4007
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Leave to appeal denied by Michigan Supreme Court, People v. Titlow, 470 Mich. 867, 680 N.W.2d 900 (2004); 480 Mich. 890, 738 N.W.2d 715 (2007); habeas corpus petition denied, Titlow v. Burt, No. 2:07-cv-13614 (E.D. Mich. Oct. 19, 2010), reversed, 680 F.3d 577 (6th Cir. 2012); cert. granted, 568 U.S. 1191 (2013).
Holding
Federal Courts must defer to a State Court's finding of fact as long as their judgement is reasonable.
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, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan
Concurrence	Sotomayor
Concurrence	Ginsburg (in judgment)
Laws applied
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act

Burt v. Titlow, 571 U.S. 12 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that when a state court makes a factual determination the federal courts must defer to its judgment so long as it is reasonable.^[1]