Legal Opinion
King v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided July 23, 1965No. 1, 1965PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HERRMANN, Justice:
The defendant William H. King was convicted and sentenced in the Superior Court on a charge of attempt to bribe Deputy State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Rago.
The sole question before us is whether the right-to-counsel rule of Escobedo v. State of Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S. Ct. 1758,12 L. Ed. 2d 977 (1964) applies to the oral inculpatory statement given by the defendant and admitted in evidence in the trial of this cause.
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The dispositive facts, viewed in the light most favorable to the defendant for present purposes, are these:
State Police Trooper Vernon H. Waller went to…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Massiah v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Ballard v. Superior Court of San Diego CountyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1966
- Jenkins v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1967
- Williams v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1966
- Parson v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1966
- State v. BlissSupreme Court of Delaware · 1968
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