Legal Opinion
State v. Anson
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
Decided October 9, 2002No. 01-2907-CRPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
¶ 1. In Patterson v. Illinois, 487 U.S. 285, 292 (1988), the United States Supreme Court observed that a waiver of a Sixth Amendment right to counsel is valid only when it reflects "an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege." The Court held that since Patterson had been informed that he had been indicted and had been given his Fifth Amendment Miranda 1 warnings and chose to speak with the police and prosecutors anyway, he waived his Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Here, when police investigators initiated a conversation with Christopher D. Anson they did not…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Kirby v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Brewer v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCannSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
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3Cited by4 opinions
- State v. AnsonWisconsin Supreme Court · 2005
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