United States v. Wayne Harrison

KELLEHER, District Judge:

This interlocutory appeal requires us to examine the doctrinal boundaries of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.. A defendant’s right to counsel attaches when the government initiates adversary proceedings by indictment, arraignment, or other means. A criminal defendant is entitled to the assistance of counsel upon invoking the Sixth Amendment right following its attachment. We hold that, in limited and well-defined circumstances, a defendant’s ongoing representation by an attorney, although that representation began before indictment, invokes the right to counsel…