In criminal law, the right to counsel means a defendant has a legal right to have the assistance of counsel (i.e., lawyers) and, if the defendant cannot...

right to counsel, through the incorporation of these rights into state law. Thus, if law enforcement officials decline to offer a Miranda warning to an...

and that he also has the right to meet and confer with a counsel or person to become his counsel. If the arrestee wishes to inform his relative or intimate...

the defendant of the constitutional right guaranteed by the Assistance of Counsel Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Ineffectiveness...

is a leading case from the Supreme Court of Canada on a detainee's right to counsel under section 10(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms...

requires U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own. The case extended the right to counsel, which had been...

be heard within a reasonable time the right to counsel the right to interpretation States may limit the right to a fair trial or derogate from the fair...

right...to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." The assistance of counsel clause includes five distinct rights: the right to counsel of choice...

individual's right to counsel, which was amended from the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. The aim is to protect the youth's right to counsel in all stages...

not required to have a standby counsel nor are they granted the right to have a standby counsel. The decision to appoint a standby counsel is in the hands...

cases, compel witnesses to testify. The Assistance of Counsel Clause grants criminal defendants the right to be assisted by counsel. In Gideon v. Wainwright...

styled King's Counsel in 1603. The right of precedence before the Court granted to Bacon became a hallmark of the early King's Counsel. True to their name...

The Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was an investigation into 45th U.S. president Donald Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016...

Karel Vašák, may include other civil and political rights such as the right to counsel and police protection of person and property. Additionally, they may...

United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment. The case was...

Standby counsel or advisory counsel refers to a lawyer who assists a client who has invoked their right to self-representation. If the client becomes disruptive...

the formal right to have legal counsel (the Prisoners' Counsel Act 1836), although in practice, English courts routinely allowed defendants to be represented...

access to justice by ensuring equality before the law, the right to counsel and the right to a fair trial. This article describes the development of legal...

right to counsel, police must cease custodial interrogation. Re-interrogation is only permissible once defendant's counsel has been made available to...

and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. One of the listed rights granted and guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment is the right to counsel; the...

Jackson. The case concerned the validity of a defendant's waiver of his right to counsel during a police interrogation. In reversing Jackson, the Court said...

defendant is being denied the right to counsel. In Daniels V. Woodford, it was found that when a court refuses to appoint new counsel after a defendant has completely...

Court established that the right to counsel can only be legally asserted by an "unambiguous or unequivocal request for counsel." Legal scholars have criticized...

Sixth Amendment right to counsel is offense-specific and does not always extend to offenses that are closely related to those where the right has been attached...

a right to be represented by counsel and must appoint counsel for defendants who cannot afford to hire a lawyer and give counsel adequate time to prepare...

at no time was Miranda told of his right to counsel. Before being presented with the form on which he was asked to write out the confession that he had...

defendant about themselves after the point that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches. In Massiah, the defendant had been indicted on a federal...

refer not exhaustively to rights to information, access to justice, and right to counsel, rights to public participation, and right to confront accusers, as...

referred to the Twinkie defense with regard to the right to counsel of choice as perhaps more important than the right to effective assistance of counsel: "I...

but no jail time. With only ten minutes to decide and denied the right to counsel with his mother, Davis took the deal. Gibson and her mother Wanda Rhodes...