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Milton Vs. Wainwright

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 22, 1972

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  1. Powell Vs. Alabama US Supreme Court · Nov 07, 1932
  2. Stovall Vs. Denno US Supreme Court · Jun 12, 1967
  3. U.S. 371 (1972) U.S. Supreme Court Milton v. Wainwright
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  4. U.S. 371 (1972) Milton v. Wainwright
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  5. in light of three other unchallenged confessions and strong corroborative evidence of petitioner's guilt. Harrington v. California
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  6. standards and were obtained in violation of his Sixth Amendment rights as subsequently interpreted in Massiah v. United
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  7. the record clearly reveals that any error in its admission was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Harrington v. California
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  8. writ in a reported decision upholding the voluntariness of those confessions, and their admissibility at trial. Milton v. Cochran
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  9. constitutional precedent established 40 years ago. That precedent, which clearly controls this case, is Powell v. Alabama
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  10. Judge denied the writ, apparently believing that the question before him was whether this Court's decision in Massiah v. United
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  11. This case was tried six years before the Supreme Court indicated in Massiah v. United
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  12. retroactive because, far from stating new principles of law, it merely restated principles derived from Powell v. Alabama
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  13. was presented. They were mistaken, third, in thinking that Powell v. Alabama
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  14. And they were mistaken, fourth, in thinking that Powell v. Alabama
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  15. was inapplicable to this case. Powell v. Alabama
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  16. U.S. at 287 U. S. 57 . In Massiah v. United
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  17. no more than reflects a constitutional principle established as long ago as Powell v. Alabama
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  18. would effect no wholesale jail deliveries. Cf. Tehan v. Shott
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  19. U. S. 406 , 382 U. S. 418 -419. In no case before Massiah had this Court, at least since Powell v. Alabama
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  20. accused has an absolute right to a lawyer's help if the case is one in which a death sentence may be imposed. Powell v. Alabama
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  21. Spano v. New
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  22. for the rule in that case has been settled law ever since Powell v. Alabama
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  23. no basis for the Court's holding today that the admission of Officer Langford's testimony was harmless. In Chapman v. California
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  24. question squarely presented in this case. That question is whether the great constitutional lesson of Powell v. Alabama
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  25. a federal noncapital felony charge, where the defendant had an absolute Sixth Amendment right to counsel under Johnson v. Zerbst
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  26. U. S. 458 . The same absolute right was secured by Gideon v. Wainwright
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  27. the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. This constitutional guarantee has now been further extended. See Argersinger v. Hamlin
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  28. in the web of the law. The issue is presented only when the decision overrules clear past precedent, e.g., Linkletter v. Walker
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  29. Desist v. United
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  30. Williams v. United
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  31. or disrupts a practice long accepted and widely relied upon, e.g., Johnson v. New
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  32. Cipriano v. City
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  33. This Court, in McLeod v. Ohio
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  34. U.S. Supreme Court Milton v. Wainwright
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  35. Harrington v. California
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  36. Massiah v. United
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  37. Milton v. Cochran
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  38. In Massiah v. United
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  39. Cf. Tehan v. Shott
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  40. In Chapman v. California
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  41. of Powell v. Alabama
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  42. Johnson v. Zerbst
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  43. Gideon v. Wainwright
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  44. See Argersinger v. Hamlin
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  45. Linkletter v. Walker
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  46. Johnson v. New
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  47. McLeod v. Ohio
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  48. Chapman v. California
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