Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

2015 term · Roberts Court · 8-0

Deborah K. Johnson, Warden v. Donna Kay Lee

578 U.S. 605 · 136 S. Ct. 1802 · 2016 U.S. LEXIS 3488

The record

Term
2015
Decided
Issue area
Criminal Procedure
Vote split
8-0
Winning party
Respondent
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Roberts Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
15-789
U.S. Reports
578 U.S. 605
S. Ct. citation
136 S. Ct. 1802
LEXIS citation
2016 U.S. LEXIS 3488

How the bench divided

M 8 majority

How each justice voted in Deborah K. Johnson, Warden v. Donna Kay Lee.
JusticeVote
John G. RobertsMajority
Anthony KennedyMajority
Clarence ThomasMajority
Ruth Bader GinsburgMajority
Stephen BreyerMajority
Samuel AlitoMajority
Sonia SotomayorMajority
Elena KaganMajority

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Criminal Procedure accounts for 2,091 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Criminal Procedure decisions →