State v. Wilkins’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Wilkins argues that, because the result in our Cooper case was premised in part on “our own view of the importance of counsel,” see 343 N.W.2d at 486 , we should continue to follow that precedent. Cooper was commenting on an interpretation of the Sixth Amendment of the federal constitution in which only four justices joined. Consequently, we believe that the reference to our view of the matter was intended as an affirmation of the vieiu of the Sixth Amendment expressed by the justices in the Supreme Court’s plurality opinion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Allen