Buck v. Davis

Buck v. Davis
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 5, 2016 Decided February 22, 2017
Full case name	Duane Edward Buck v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
Docket no.	15-8049
Citations	580 U.S. ___ (more) 137 S. Ct. 759; 197 L. Ed. 2d 1
Case history
Prior	Buck v. Stephens, 623 F. App'x 668 (5th Cir. 2015); cert. granted, 136 S. Ct. 2409 (2016).
Procedural	On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Subsequent	865 F.3d 215 (5th Cir. 2017)
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Roberts, joined by Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Alito
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. VI

Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. ___ (2017), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court reversed the death sentence of the defendant Duane Buck after the defendant's attorney introduced evidence that suggested the defendant would be more likely to commit violent acts in the future because he was black.^[1]