Alito delivered his first written opinion on May 1, 2006, in "Holmes v. South Carolina", a case involving the right of criminal defendants to present evidence that a third party committed the crime. (From the beginning of the Rehnquist Court to the nomination of justice Elena Kagan, new justices have been given unanimous opinions to write as their first opinion, often done as a courtesy "breaking in" of new justices, so that every justice has at least one unanimous, uncontroversial opinion under their belt). Alito wrote for a unanimous court in ordering a new trial for Bobby Lee Holmes due to South Carolina's rule that barred such evidence based on the strength of the prosecution's case, rather than on the relevance and strength of the defense evidence itself. His other majority opinions in his first term were in "Zedner v. United States", "Woodford v. Ngo", and "Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy".