Smith v. Texas (2007)

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Smith v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 17, 2007 Decided April 25, 2007
Full case name	LaRoyce Lathair Smith v. Texas
Citations	550 U.S. 297 (more) 127 S. Ct. 1686; 167 L. Ed. 2d 632
Case history
Prior	Smith v. Texas, 543 U.S. 37 (2004) ("Smith I"); Ex Parte Smith, 185 S.W.3d 455 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006); cert. granted, 549 U.S. 948 (2006).
Holding
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed[further explanation needed]
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Concurrence	Souter
Dissent	Alito, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Thomas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. VIII

Smith v. Texas, 550 U.S. 297 (2007), was a United States Supreme Court case about a challenge to a Texas death penalty court procedure. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion of the Court, holding 5-4 that the Texas procedure was improper. Justice Samuel Alito wrote a dissent.