Mitchell v. Wisconsin

Mitchell v. Wisconsin
Mitchell v. Wisconsin
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 23, 2019; Decided June 27, 2019
Full case name	Gerald P. Mitchell, Petitioner v. Wisconsin
Docket no.	18–6210
Citations	588 U.S. ___ (more) 139 S. Ct. 2525; 204 L. Ed. 2d 1040
Case history
Prior	State v. Mitchell, 2018 WI 84, 383 Wis. 2d 192, 914 N.W.2d 151 (2018); cert. granted, 139 S. Ct. 915 (2019).
Holding
	"When a driver is unconscious and cannot be given a breath test, the exigent-circumstances doctrine generally permits a blood test without a warrant."
Court membership
	Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito; Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan; Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
Plurality	Alito, joined by Roberts, Breyer, and Kavanaugh
Concurrence	Thomas (judgment)
Dissent	Sotomayor, joined by Ginsburg and Kagan
Dissent	Gorsuch

Mitchell v. Wisconsin, 588 U.S. ___ (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that "when a driver is unconscious and cannot be given a breath test, the exigent-circumstances doctrine generally permits a blood test without a warrant."[1]

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