Dixon v. United States

Dixon v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 25, 2006 Decided June 22, 2006
Full case name	Keshia Currie Ashford Dixon v. United States
Docket no.	05-7053
Citations	548 U.S. 1 (more) 126 S. Ct. 2437; 165 L. Ed. 2d 299
Case history
Prior	United States v. Dixon, 413 F.3d 520 (5th Cir. 2005); rehearing en banc denied, 163 F. App'x 351 (5th Cir. 2005); cert. granted, 546 U.S. 1135 (2006).
Holding
A criminal defendant who claims to have acted under duress must prove the claim by a preponderance of the evidence.
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	Stevens, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito
Concurrence	Kennedy
Concurrence	Alito, joined by Scalia
Dissent	Breyer, joined by Souter
Laws applied
Due Process Clause, Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968

Dixon v. United States, 548 U.S. 1 (2006), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the level of proof required to establish the affirmative defense of duress in a federal criminal case.