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Coleman Vs. Alabama

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 22, 1970

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  1. Powell Vs. Alabama US Supreme Court · Nov 07, 1932
  2. Foster Vs. California US Supreme Court · Apr 01, 1969
  3. United States Vs. Wade US Supreme Court · Jun 12, 1967
  4. Albertson Vs. Millard US Supreme Court · Mar 16, 1953
  5. Stovall Vs. Denno US Supreme Court · Jun 12, 1967
  6. North Carolina Vs. Pearce US Supreme Court · Jun 23, 1969
  7. U.S. 1 (1970) U.S. Supreme Court Coleman v. Alabama
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  8. U.S. 1 (1970) Coleman v. Alabama
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  9. were made of them were fatally tainted by a prejudicial station house lineup (which occurred prior to United States v. Wade
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  10. U. S. 218 , and Gilbert v. California
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  11. the case to a grand jury, and to fix bail for bailable offenses. The trial court scrupulously followed Pointer v. Texas
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  12. and seven months before petitioners' trial. Petitioners concede that, since the lineup occurred before United States v. Wade
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  13. the accused to identifying witnesses before trial in the absence of counsel. Page 399 U. S. 4 Stovall v. Denno
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  14. of them. This is a claim that must be determined on the totality of the surrounding circumstances. Stovall v. Denno
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  15. Simmons v. United
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  16. the principle of Powell v. Alabama
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  17. include the pretrial type of arraignment where certain rights may be sacrificed or lost, Hamilton v. Alabama
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  18. U. S. 52 , 368 U. S. 54 (1961), see White v. Maryland
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  19. U. S. 59 (1963), and the pretrial lineup, United States v. Wade
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  20. supra. Cf. Miranda v. Arizona
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  21. compulsory self-incrimination includes a right to counsel at a pretrial custodial interrogation. See also Massiah v. United
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  22. does not preclude him from availing himself of every defense he may have upon the trial of the case. Also, Pointer v. State
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  23. This Court is of course bound by this construction of the governing Alabama law, Kingsley International Pictures Corp. v Regents
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  24. Cf. White v. Maryland
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  25. The test to be applied is whether the denial of counsel at the preliminary hearing was harmless error under Chapman v. California
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  26. U. S. 18 (1967). See United States v. Wade
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  27. this opinion as they may deem appropriate to determine whether such denial of counsel was harmless error, see Gilbert v. California
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  28. in-court identification by the victim of the assault should have been suppressed. This claim relies mainly on Stovall v. Denno
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  29. But I also argued in Stovall that the right to counsel at a lineup, declared that same day in United States v. Wade
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  30. U. S. 218 (1967), should be held fully retroactive. Stovall v. Denno
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  31. under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. However, for the reasons stated in my separate opinion in United States v. Wade
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  32. of whether the denial of counsel at the preliminary hearing was harmless error under the Court's decision in Chapman v. California
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  33. and narrow meaning if we held that it did not include that phase. My Brother HARLAN, in his dissent in Miranda v. Arizona
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  34. of the lengths to which the right to appointed counsel has been carried in recent decisions of this Court, see Miranda v. Arizona
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  35. Mathis v. United
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  36. and Orozco v. Texas
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  37. it in terms of considerations that I have recently expressed elsewhere. See my dissenting opinion in Baldwin v. New
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  38. York, decided today, post, p. 399 U. S. 117 , and my opinion concurring in the result in Welsh v. United
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  39. to leave the way open for that sort of speculation. II Despite my continuing disagreement with United States v. Wade
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  40. identification. The majority's action results from the holding in Stovall v. Denno
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  41. of that decision, the present lineup having taken place well before. For reasons explained in my dissent in Desist v. United
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  42. the way in which I think state cases of this kind should be judged ( see, e.g., my concurring opinion in Gideon v. Wainwright
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  43. is as held in United States v. Wade
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  44. emphasis supplied), was intended to reach such pre-indictment events. Cf. Sanders v. United
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  45. U.S. Supreme Court Coleman v. Alabama
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  46. and Gilbert v. California
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  47. Pointer v. Texas
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  48. of Powell v. Alabama
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  49. White v. Maryland
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  50. Cf. Miranda v. Arizona
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