The Oyez Project: Criminal Procedure Issues - Right to Counsel Decisions

Alabama v. Shelton - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 20 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Sixth Amendment right to appointed counsel, as defined in Argersinger v. Hamlin, 407 U.S. 25, and Scott v. Illinois, 440 U.S. 367, apply to a defendant who was sentenced to a suspended sentence?

Brewer v. Williams - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 23 Mar 1977 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Fellers v. United States - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:00:00 -0500

(1) Was the appellate court correct to rule that officers did not violate Fellers' Sixth Amendment right to counsel because officers did not interrogate him? (2) Should Fellers' statements in the jailhouse - given after police Mirandized him - be suppressed because they were fruits of an unconstitutional interview in his home?

Florida v. Nixon - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:00:00 -0500

1.) Is a defense lawyer's use of a strategy that concedes the defendant's guilt ineffective assistance of counsel if the strategy was pursued without the explicit approval of the defendant? 2.) Should counsel be held to a standard that considers whether counsel's statements were deficient and prejudicial to the defendant, or should counsel be considered ineffective per se?

Geders v. United States - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 30 Mar 1976 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Glover v. United States - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 12:00:00 -0500

Is a significant increase on a prison sentence required in order to show prejudice in a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel?

Iowa v. Tovar - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 12:00:00 -0500

Given the 6th Amendment's right to counsel, to what extent must a defendant be informed of the consequences of pleading guilty while waiving the right to an attorney?

Mcneil v. Wisconsin - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 13 Jun 1991 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Mickens v. Taylor - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Must a defendant show that a conflict of interest adversely affected his representation in order to demonstrate a Sixth Amendment violation when the trial court fails to inquire into a potential conflict of interest about which it knew or reasonably should have known?

Middendorf v. Henry - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 24 Mar 1976 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Morris v. Slappy - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 20 Apr 1983 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Nichols v. United States - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 06 Jun 1994 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Perry v. Leeke - Opinion Announcement

Sun, 01 Jan 1989 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Roe v. Flores-Ortega - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:00:00 -0500

Does trial counsel have a duty to file a notice of appeal following a guilty plea if the defendant has not requested so, but has been informed of his appeal rights?

Rompilla v. Beard - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:00:00 -0500

Did the Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel require counsel to try to obtain material counsel had known the prosecution would probably use at the trial's sentencing phase?

Texas v. Cobb - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Sixth Amendment right to counsel extend to crimes that are "factually related" to those that have actually been charged?

United States v. Martinez-Salazar - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:00:00 -0500

s a defendant's peremptory challenge right impaired or denied when he or she peremptorily challenges a potential juror, whom the district court erroneously refused to excuse for cause, and the defendant thereafter exhausts his peremptory challenges?

United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:00:00 -0500

If a trial court judge wrongly denies a defendant his Sixth Amendment right to an attorney of his own choosing, is the defendant automatically entitled to have his conviction overturned?

United States v. Morrison - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 13 Jan 1981 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Weatherford v. Bursey - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 22 Feb 1977 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Wiggins v. Smith - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:00:00 -0500

Does a criminal defendant's attorneys' failure to investigate his background and present mitigating evidence of his unfortunate life history at his capital sentencing proceedings constitute ineffective assistance of counsel?