Ramer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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1. ““It well may be that a case of mail censorship could result in deprivation of the effective assistance of counsel in derogation of the Sixth Amendment. If, for example, the use of the mails constituted the only method whereby the defendant and his counsel could communicate with each other and such means of communication was censored, certainly the defendant then would have been deprived of his constitutional rights. We do not view the instant situation as comparable. Here defendant and his counsel were given every opportunity needed to communicate privately with each other during the ordinary visting hours at the St. Louis City Jail. The opening by the City Jail officials of mail between defendant and his counsel, done .for security purposes, and the contents thereof not communicated to the prosecution, presents an entirely different situation.” See also Ramer v. United States, 411 F.2d 30 , 36 (CA9 1969).”

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