Luis v. United States

Luis v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 10, 2015 Decided March 30, 2016
Full case name	Sila Luis v. United States
Docket no.	14-419
Citations	578 U.S. ___ (more) 136 S. Ct. 1083; 194 L. Ed. 2d 256
Case history
Prior	United States v. Luis, 966 F. Supp. 2d 1321 (S.D. Fla. 2013); affirmed, 564 F. App'x 493 (11th Cir. 2014); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 2798 (2015).
Holding
Pre-trial restraint of untainted assets needed to retain a counsel of the defendant's choice violates the Sixth Amendment. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated and remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Plurality	Breyer, joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Sotomayor
Concurrence	Thomas (in judgment)
Dissent	Kennedy, joined by Alito
Dissent	Kagan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. VI

Luis v. United States, 578 U.S. ___ (2016), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the pre-trial restraint of assets needed to retain a defendant's counsel of choice when those assets have not been used in conjunction with criminal activity.^[1]