House v. Bell

House v. Bell
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 11, 2006 Decided June 12, 2006
Full case name	Paul Gregory House, Petitioner v. Ricky Bell, Warden
Docket no.	04-8990
Citations	547 U.S. 518 (more) 126 S. Ct. 2064; 165 L. Ed. 2d 1; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 4674
Case history
Prior	311 F.3d 767 (6th Cir. 2002); cert. denied, 539 U.S. 937 (2003); 386 F.3d 668 (6th Cir. 2004); cert. granted, 545 U.S. 1151 (2005).
Holding
Post-conviction DNA forensic evidence can be considered in death penalty appeals.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Concur/dissent	Roberts, joined by Scalia, Thomas
Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV

House v. Bell, 547 U.S. 518 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case challenging the permissibility of new DNA forensic evidence that becomes available post-conviction, in capital punishment appeals when those claims have defaulted pursuant to state law.^[1] The Court found that admitting new DNA evidence was in line with Schlup v. Delo (1995),^[2] which allows cases to be reopened in light of new evidence.