Right to Counsel in Misdemeanor Prosecutions After Alabama v

Shelton the Sixth. Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires the provision of defense counsel to an indigent defendant for any charge that



Right to Counsel in Misdemeanor Prosecutions After Alabama v

Shelton the Sixth. Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires the provision of defense counsel to an indigent defendant for any charge that



Right to Counsel--Sixth Amendment: Misdemeanor Prosecutions

Right to Counsel--Sixth Amendment: Misdemeanor Prosecutions: Argersinger v. Hamlin 407 U.S. 25 (1972)



Beyond “Life and Liberty”: The Evolving Right to Counsel

counsel. Recognizing that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel has evolved to appoint counsel in misdemeanor cases if the defendant is actually sen-.



The Right to Counsel in Misdemeanor Cases

The Supreme Court has never decided whether the rule of Johnson v. Zerbst-. i.e. that the sixth amendment guarantees the right to appointed counsel in felony.



Chapter 1: Pretrial Release

Generally when a defendant is arrested for a felony or misdemeanor (with or without a warrant)



Beyond “Life and Liberty”: The Evolving Right to Counsel

drug-related misdemeanors for which incarceration is not imposed current. Sixth Amendment jurisprudence provides no right to court-appointed coun-.



Right to Counsel Services in the 50 States

The provision of Sixth Amendment indigent defense services is a state obligation through the Fourteenth Amendment.1 However defining how states choose to 



ARTICLES KEEPING GIDEONS PROMISE: USING EQUAL

access to the courts. Viewed in that light indigent misdemeanor defendants denied counsel may not suffer from a Sixth Amendment violation under the.



Chapter 12 Right to Counsel

at the trial level a person has a Sixth Amendment right to counsel for all felonies and most misdemeanors. Other constitutional provisions give a criminal