Giles v. California

Giles v. California
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 22, 2008 Decided June 25, 2008
Full case name	Dwayne Giles v. California
Docket no.	07-6053
Citations	554 U.S. 353 (more) 128 S. Ct. 2678; 171 L. Ed. 2d 488
Case history
Prior	Vacated, 40 Cal.4th 833 (2007)
Holding
For statements to be admitted under the forfeiture exception to the confrontation right, the defendant must have intended to make the witness unavailable for trial. Vacated and remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Alito; Souter, Ginsburg (all but Part II–D–2)
Concurrence	Thomas
Concurrence	Alito
Concurrence	Souter (in part), joined by Ginsburg
Dissent	Breyer, joined by Stevens, Kennedy
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. VI, XIV

Giles v. California, 554 U.S. 353 (2008), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that for testimonial statements to be admissible under the forfeiture exception to hearsay, the defendant must have intended to make the witness unavailable for trial.^[1]