Ornelas v. United States

Ornelas v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 26, 1996 Decided May 28, 1996
Full case name	Saul Ornelas and Ismael Ornelas-Ledesma v. United States
Citations	517 U.S. 690 (more) 116 S.Ct. 1657; 134 L. Ed. 2d 911; 64 U.S.L.W. 4373
Case history
Prior	Defendants convicted, Eastern District of Wisconsin; affirmed, 52 F.3d 328 (7th Cir. 1995); certiorari granted, 516 U.S. 963 (1995).
Subsequent	Conviction affirmed, 96 F.3d 1450 (7th Cir. 1996)
Holding
Probable cause determinations for warrantless searches are reviewed de novo.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Scalia
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV

Ornelas v. United States, 517 U.S. 690 (1996), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that appellate courts should review probable cause determinations for warrantless searches de novo.^[1]