Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, No. 04-10566 (U.S. Supreme Court) (548 U.S. 331; 126 S.Ct. 2669) (June 28, 2006) (Justice (John G.) Roberts)
Without deciding whether the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations grants individuals any enforceable rights, the Court held that a violation of that treaty does not require the states to suppress evidence or forego their procedural default rules.
In this case, the Supreme Court addressed the derivative rights of criminal defendants ...
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