When it comes to U.S. Supreme Court criminal justice cases, the decisions the court will announce in the next few weeks as the 2024/2025 term comes to a close will be of great interest, not only for the outcomes of high-profile cases, but also because we will learn whether the court's fractured decision-making in criminal justice cases observed during the last term has continued.

Based on the list of cases decided on the merits, less than 25% of the court's criminal justice decisions last term were unanimous, as compared to over half of the court's decisions in other kinds of cases.[1] 

In fact, the criminal justice cases accounted for over half of the court's 6-3 decisions. Last term, among the 18 merits cases related to criminal justice, 12 were 6-3 decisions.

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