Schriro v. Summerlin

Schriro v. Summerlin
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 19, 2004 Decided June 24, 2004
Full case name	Dora B. Schriro, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Warren Wesley Summerlin
Citations	542 U.S. 348 (more) 124 S. Ct. 2519; 159 L. Ed. 2d 442; 2004 U.S. LEXIS 4574; 72 U.S.L.W. 4561; 17 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 425
Case history
Prior	Summerlin v. Stewart, 267 F.3d 926 (9th Cir. 2001); opinion withdrawn, 281 F.3d 836 (9th Cir. 2002); on rehearing en banc, 341 F.3d 1082 (9th Cir. 2003); cert. granted, 540 U.S. 1045 (2003).
Subsequent	Summerlin v. Schriro, 427 F.3d 623
Holding
Ring v. Arizona[1] does not apply retroactively to cases already final on direct review.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, Thomas
Dissent	Breyer, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg

Schriro v. Summerlin, 542 U.S. 348 (2004), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a requirement that a different Supreme Court decision requiring the jury rather than the judge to find aggravating factors would not be applied retroactively.^[2]