Legal Opinion
Daniels v. Lafler
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 5, 2007No. 05-1846PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOGGS, Chief Judge.
In 1996, Todd Daniels helped a friend to burn down a house in Detroit, killing three children. In 1997, a Michigan state jury convicted him of three counts of second-degree murder and seven counts of assault with intent to commit murder. The trial court sentenced him to twenty to forty years of imprisonment. The district court denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus; he now appeals. First, he contends that the trial court violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel by replacing his original court-appointed attorney with a different court-appointed attorney,…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- United States v. CronicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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- Cupp v. NaughtenSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by54 opinions
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