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Argersinger Vs. Hamlin

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 12, 1972

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  5. Mempa Vs. Rhay US Supreme Court · Nov 13, 1967
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  10. U.S. 25 (1972) U.S. Supreme Court Argersinger v. Hamlin
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  11. U.S. 25 (1972) Argersinger v. Hamlin
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  12. of counsel, which is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment as made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth, Gideon v. Wainwright
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  13. Court, by a four-to-three decision, in ruling on the right to counsel, followed the line we marked out in Duncan v. Louisiana
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  14. in enumerated situations, has been made applicable to the States by reason of the Fourteenth Amendment ( see Duncan v. Louisiana
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  15. Washington v. Texas
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  16. Klopfer v. North
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  17. the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation. Still another, the right of confrontation. Pointer v. Texas
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  18. supra. And another, compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in one's favor. Washington v. Texas
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  19. supra. We have never limited these rights to felonies or to lesser but serious offenses. In Washington v. Texas
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  20. Junker, The Right to Counsel in Misdemeanor Cases, 43 Wash.L.Rev. 685, 705 (1968). District of Columbia v. Clawans
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  21. The right to trial by jury, also guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment by reason of the Fourteenth, was limited by Duncan v. Louisiana
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  22. trials where the potential punishment was imprisonment for six months or more. But, as the various opinions in Baldwin v. New
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  23. of the right in petty offenses wherein the common law previously did require that counsel be provided. See James v. Headley
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  24. lawyer. The assistance of counsel is often a requisite to the very existence of a fair trial. The Court in Powell v. Alabama
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  25. In Gideon v. Wainwright
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  26. supra (overruling Betts v. Brady
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  27. for a brief period are any less complex than when a person can be sent off for six months or more. See, e.g., Powell v. Texas
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  28. Thompson v. Louisville
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  29. of imprisonment may be imposed, the cases often bristle with thorny constitutional questions. See Papachristou v. Jacksonville
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  30. the guiding hand of counsel Page 407 U. S. 34 at every step in the proceedings against him,' citing Powell v. Alabama
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  31. of liberty is not involved, however, for here, petitioner was, in fact, sentenced to jail. And, as we said in Baldwin v. New
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  32. That is the view of the Supreme Court of Oregon, with which we agree. It said, in Stevenson v. Holzman
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  33. The Impact of Gideon v. Wainwright
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  34. in most misdemeanor cases. Id. at 124-133. One of these is Oregon, whose Supreme Court said, in Stevenson v. Holzman
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  35. California's requirement extends to traffic violations. Blake v. Municipal
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  36. James v. Headley
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  37. Johnson v. Zerbst
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  38. But, as the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit noted in James v. Headley
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  39. See Marston v. Oliver
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  40. in the preparation of petitions for post-conviction relief. CLEPR Newsletter, May 1972, p. 3. See United States v. Simpson
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  41. an evolving concept. The constitutional requirements with respect to the issue have dated in recent times from Powell v. Alabama
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  42. U. S. 45 (1932), to Gideon v. Wainwright
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  43. impeachment. MR. JUSTICE POWELL, with whom MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST joins, concurring in the result. Gideon v. Wainwright
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  44. The state court, in drawing a six-month line, followed the lead of this Court in Duncan v. Louisiana
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  45. U. S. 145 (1968), and in the subsequent case of Baldwin v. New
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  46. counsel must be similarly restricted. The Court's opinions in Duncan, Baldwin, and District of Columbia v. Clawans
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  47. counsel does not mysteriously evaporate when he is charged with an offense punishable by six months or less. In Powell v. Alabama
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  48. Losing one's driver's license is more serious for some individuals than a brief stay in jail. In Bell v. Burson
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  49. serve as an example of what today's ruling will mean in some localities. In November, 1971, the petition in Wright v. Town
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  50. Such a rule is similar in certain respects to the special circumstances rule applied to felony cases in Betts v. Brady
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