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235 Ga. 513

220 S.E.2d 269

Stapleton v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided October 29, 1975

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1975-10-29

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Decided 1975-10-29

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Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Dick v. State (1980), Butler v. State (2013)

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Hill, Justice,

¶1dissenting.

¶2I respectfully dissent from that part of the first division of the opinion which holds that, after a Jackson-Denno hearing shows that the defendant was not advised of his Miranda right to the assistance of appointed counsel, the trial transcript may be considered to show that he was so advised. It is one thing to consider the trial transcript to supplement a Jackson-Denno hearing; it is a different thing to refer to the trial transcript to contradict the evidence adduced at the Jackson-Denno hearing. Cf. Sanders v. State, supra, Morales v. New York, supra.

¶3Thus in my view it was error to admit the defendant’s confession into evidence.

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