Supreme Court of the United States
Kansas v. Ventris
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- Opinion
- Filed
- April 29, 2009
- Case
- Kansas v. Ventris
- Case status
- Decided
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*588 Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. We address in this case the question whether a defendant’s incriminating statement to a jailhouse informant, concededly elicited in violation of Sixth Amendment strictures, is admissible at trial to impeach the defendant’s confli…
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