Davis v. United States (2011)

For other uses, see Davis v. United States (disambiguation).

Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. 229 (2011), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States "[held] that searches conducted in objectively reasonable reliance on binding appellate precedent are not subject to the exclusionary rule". This simply means that if law enforcement officers conduct a search in a reasonable manner with respect to established legal precedent any evidence found may not be excluded from trial based on the exclusionary rule.

Davis v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 21, 2011 Decided June 16, 2011
Full case name	Willie Gene Davis v. United States
Docket no.	09-11328
Citations	564 U.S. 229 (more) 131 S. Ct. 2419; 180 L. Ed. 2d 285
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	United States v. Davis, No. 2:07-cr-0248-WKW, 2008 WL 1927377 (M.D. Ala. 2008) (denying motion to suppress), aff'd, 598 F.3d 1259 (11th Cir. 2010), cert. granted, 131 S. Ct. 502 (2010).
Holding
Searches conducted in objectively reasonable reliance on binding appellate precedent are not subject to the exclusionary rule.
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	Alito, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Kagan
Concurrence	Sotomayor
Dissent	Breyer, joined by Ginsburg
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV

See also

• Appellate Court
• Precedent

External links

• Text of Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. 229 (2011) is available from: Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)