Nelson v. Colorado

Nelson v. Colorado
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 9, 2017 Decided April 19, 2017
Full case name	Shannon Nelson, Petitioner v. Colorado Louis A. Madden, Petitioner v. Colorado
Docket no.	15-1256
Citations	581 U.S. ___ (more) 137 S. Ct. 1249; 197 L. Ed. 2d 611
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	People v. Nelson, 2013 COA 58, 369 P.3d 625; reversed, 2015 CO 68, 362 P.3d 1070; People v. Madden, 2013 COA 56, 399 P.3d 706; reversed, 2015 CO 69, 364 P.3d 866; cert. granted, 137 S. Ct. 30 (2016).
Holding
The Colorado Exoneration Act's scheme does not comport with the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch
Case opinions
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan
Concurrence	Alito (in judgment)
Dissent	Thomas
Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Nelson v. Colorado, 581 U.S. ___ (2017), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.^[1] In a 7-1 decision written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court held that a state had no right to keep fines and other money based on an invalid conviction.^[2] Justice Samuel Alito wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion, and Justice Neil Gorsuch did not take part in the consideration or decision of the case.^[3]