New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion.
FILE - Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stands as she and members of the Supreme Court pose for a new group portrait following her addition, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. DCSA122issued her first Supreme Court opinion Monday, a short dissent in support of a death row inmate from Ohio.
In her dissent, Jackson wrote that she would have ordered a new look at Chinn's case “because his life is on the line and given the substantial likelihood that the suppressed records would have changed the outcome at trial.” The evidence at issue indicated that a key witness against Chinn has an intellectual disability that might have affected his memory and ability to testify accurately, she wrote.
The only other member of the court to join Jackson's opinion was fellow liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor.The court has yet to decide any of the cases argued in October or the first few days of this month. Jackson almost certainly will be writing a majority opinion in one of those cases. Every justice typically writes at least one opinion each time the court sits for a two-week session of hearing arguments.
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