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."

See also

• Birchfield v. North Dakota

External links

• Text of is available from: Justia  Oyez (oral argument audio)  Supreme Court (slip opinion)