Legal Opinion
Geders v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 30, 1976No. 74-5968PublishedCited by 1,100 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari to consider whether a trial court’s order directing petitioner, the defendant in a federal prosecution, not to consult his attorney during a regular overnight recess, called while petitioner was on the stand as a witness and shortly before cross-examination was to begin, deprived him of the assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment.
A grand jury in' the Middle District of Florida returned indictments charging petitioner and several codefendants with conspiracy to import and illegal importation of a controlled substance into the United States, in violation…
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