Samia v. United States (599 U.S. 635)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 23, 2023 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 599 U.S. 635 · 143 S. Ct. 2004
- Decided
- June 23, 2023
- Term
- October Term 2022
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Thomas
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 599 U. S. Part 1 Pages 635–669 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT June 23, 2023 Page Proof Pending Publication REBECCA A. WOMELDORF reporter of decisions NOTICE: This preliminary print is subject to formal revision before the bound volume is published. Users are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. OCTOBER TERM, 2022 635 Syllabus SAMIA, aka SAMIC v. UNITED STATES certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the second circuit No. 22–196. Argued March 29, 2023—Decided June 23, 2023 Petitioner Adam Samia, along with Joseph Hunter and Carl Stillwell, was arrested by the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration and charged with a variety of offenses related to the murder-for-hire of Catherine Lee, a real-estate broker. The Government tried all three defendants jointly in the Southern District of New York. Prior to trial, the Gov- ernment moved to admit Stillwell's postarrest confession in which he admitted that he had been in the van in which Lee was killed, but he claimed that Samia had shot Lee. Since Stillwell would not be testify- ing on his own behalf and the full confession implicated Samia, the Gov- ernment proposed that the confession be introduced through the testi- mony of a DEA agent, who would testify…
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