164 W. Va. 68 - State v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
June 1985
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coleman v. Alabama · 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas · 160 W. Va. 234 - State v. Boyd · 158 W. Va. 647 - State Ex Rel. Grob v. Blair · United States v. Hammonds
Most-quoted passages
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“None of ... [the Coleman ] criteria applies in this instance because the sole purpose of the hearing was to inform the defendant of his rights and to inform him that the bond would be set by the criminal court judge. No witnesses were present who should have been subject to cross-examination, no presentation of the State’s case was made, and no discussion of psychiatric examination was made before or after the trial. Under these circumstances it is manifest that the lack of counsel constituted harmless error beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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