Legal Opinion
Pointer v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 5, 1965No. 577PublishedCited by 4,447 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
The Sixth Amendment provides in part that:
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the wit*401nesses against him . . . and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”
Two years ago in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335, we held that the Fourteenth Amendment makes the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of right to counsel obligatory upon the States. The question we find necessary to decide in this case is whether the Amendment’s guarantee of a defendant’s right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him,” which has been held to include the…
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