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SCOTUS hears right to counsel case this week

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

From Willamette School of Law: Oral argument this week in a right to counsel case: Rothgery v. Gillespie County Argued: 3/17/2008 No. 07-440 Court Below: 491 F.3d 293 (5th Circuit 2006) Full Text: http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions%5Cpub%5C06/06-50267-CV0.wpd.pdf RIGHT TO COUNSEL (Whether Defendant is Entitled to an Attorney at a Hearing Where Magistrate Judge Finds Probable Cause that Defendant Committed a Crime and the Prosecutor was not Involved) The issue in this case is whether the defendant was entitled to an attorney when a magistrate judge found probable cause that defendant had committed a crime and placed him in jail pending bail or trial, when the prosecutor did not appear. Walter Allen Rothgery was arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).