Whorton v. Bockting

Whorton v. Bockting
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 1, 2006 Decided February 28, 2007
Full case name	Glen Whorton, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, Petitioner v. Marvin Howard Bockting
Citations	549 U.S. 406 (more) 127 S. Ct. 1173; 167 L. Ed. 2d 1; 2007 U.S. LEXIS 2826; 75 U.S.L.W. 4121; 72 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. (Callaghan) 635; 44 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 777; 20 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 99
Holding
Crawford v. Washington does not apply retroactively. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed.
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 opinion
Majority	Alito, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. VI

Whorton v. Bockting, 549 U.S. 406 (2007), was a United States Supreme Court case about the application of the Confrontation Clause and whether Crawford v. Washington (2006) applied retroactively. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for a unanimous Court, ruled that Crawford did not apply retroactively.