McJordan v. Huff’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

39 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““in the instant case that the petitioner’s conviction was valid amounts in effect to an assertion that the constitutional guarantee that in criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to have the assistance of counsel for his defense does not apply at the arraignment, where the accused is required to stand at the bar, to hear the charge, and to enter a plea. But an accused is no less an accused at that stage of the proceedings than at any other, and, as we have pointed out above, no less in need at that stage than at any other of the assistance of counsel. The constitutional guarantee makes no distinction between the arraignment and other stages of criminal proceedings in respect of the application of the guarantee. * * * The duty upon a court of according an accused such rights is positive and affirmative and must not be ignored.” 12”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Poole v. United States

2. “[I]t goes without saying that a plea of guilty at that time can be and often is changed, on proper motion, as a matter of course.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Sambro