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Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own.
Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the government from eliciting statements from the defendant about themselves after the point that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches.
As stated in Brewer v.Williams, 430 U.S. 387 (1977), the right to counsel "means at least that a person is entitled to the help of a lawyer at or after the time that judicial proceedings have been initiated against him, 'whether by way of formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information, or arraignment. ' " [2] Brewer goes on to conclude that once adversarial proceedings have begun ...
Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul G. Summers writes this regular civics education guest opinion column about the U.S. Constitution. Opinion: It took 200 years for the 27th Amendment to be ...
Amendment 2 clarifies that Kentucky’s Constitution doesn’t prohibit lawmakers from funding school choice programs in the future.
In 2004, Padilla filed a pro se motion for post-conviction relief, alleging that he had been given bad advice by his attorney. The Sixth Amendment, as interpreted by the Court in Gideon v. Wainwright, guarantees criminal defendants legal counsel. Strickland v. Washington, a subsequent decision, further requires that defendants receive effective ...
The legislature’s voter-turnout trick probably won’t be enough to pass Amendment 2, but don’t discount the misleading messages.
The Seventh Amendment guarantees a jury trial in civil cases in addition to the guarantee of a jury in a criminal trial provided by the Sixth Amendment. [76] Its guarantees are not incorporated to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, although most state constitutions contain similar provisions. [76] Hardware Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance Co ...