Missouri v. Frye

Missouri v. Frye
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 31, 2011 Decided March 21, 2012
Full case name	Missouri v. Galin E. Frye
Docket no.	10-444
Citations	566 U.S. 134 (more) 132 S. Ct. 1399, 182 L. Ed. 2d 379 (2012).
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Holding
"Defense counsel has the duty to communicate formal offers from the prosecution to accept a plea on terms and conditions that may be favorable to the accused."[1]
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	Kennedy, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan
Dissent	Scalia, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Alito
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. VI, XIV

Missouri v. Galin E. Frye, 566 U.S. 134 (2012), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that attorneys of criminal defendants have the duty to communicate plea bargains offered to the accused.^[1]