Montejo v. Louisiana

Montejo v. Louisiana
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 13, 2009 Decided May 26, 2009
Full case name	Jesse Jay Montejo, Petitioner v. Louisiana
Docket no.	07-1529
Citations	556 U.S. 778 (more) 129 S. Ct. 2079; 173 L. Ed. 2d 955; 2009 U.S. LEXIS 3973
Case history
Prior	affirmed 974 So. 2d 1238 (La. 2008), vacated and remanded
Holding
A defendant may validly waive his right to counsel for police interrogation, even if police initiate the interrogation after the defendant's 6th Amendment right to counsel had attached at an arraignment or similar proceeding. Michigan v. Jackson is overruled.
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, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito
Concurrence	Alito, joined by Kennedy
Dissent	Stevens, joined by Souter, Ginsburg; Breyer (except footnote 5)
Dissent	Breyer
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. VI
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings
Michigan v. Jackson, 475 U.S. 625 (1986)

Montejo v. Louisiana, 556 U.S. 778 (2009), is a 5–4 decision by the United States Supreme Court that overruled the Court's decision in Michigan v. Jackson.^[1] The case concerned the validity of a defendant's waiver of his right to counsel during a police interrogation. In reversing Jackson, the Court said such a waiver was valid.^[2]