Legal Opinion
Hurrell-Harring v. State
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 6, 2010No. 66PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Lippman.
The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees a criminal defendant “the right to . . . have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence,” and since Gideon v Wainwright (372 US 335 [1963]) it has been established that that entitlement may not be effectively denied by the State by reason of a defendant’s inability to pay for a lawyer. Gideon is not now controversial either as an expression of what the Constitution requires or as an exercise in elemental fair play. Serious questions have, however, arisen in this and other jurisdictions as…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- People v. BaldiNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
- United States v. CronicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
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3Cited by73 opinions
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