273 Ga. App. 107 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 2009
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · McNeil v. Wisconsin · 228 Ga. App. 193 - Kapua v. State · Culler v. State · 202 Ga. App. 100 - Mitchell v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The Sixth Amendment right to counsel is offense-specific: It cannot be invoked once for all future prosecutions, for it does not attach until a prosecution is commenced, that is, at or after the initiation of adversary judicial criminal proceedings — whether by way of formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information, or arraignment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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