[1] The case concerned the validity of a defendant's waiver of his right to counsel during a police interrogation.

Later that day, while in prison, police read Montejo his Miranda rights, and he agreed to go along on a trip to locate the murder weapon.

While in the police car, Montejo wrote an inculpatory letter of apology to the victim's widow.

The crime in which he was convicted of was shooting and killing 61-year-old Louis Ferrari at his home in the Slidell area on September 2, 2002.

[3] In a decision written by Justice Scalia, the Court expressly overturned Michigan v. Jackson, 475 U.S. 625 (1986), asserting that requiring an initial “invocation” of the right to counsel in order to trigger the Jackson presumption, might work in States that require an indigent defendant formally to request counsel before an appointment is made, but not in more than half the States, which appoint counsel without request from the defendant.