People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “In this instance the sixth amendment right to counsel as articulated by Massiah and the fifth amendment right to counsel as enunciated in Miranda were indistinguishable in practical effect: they both entitled defendant to have counsel present during his interrogation. But the fact that his right rested on dual constitutional foundations did not require any warnings that were not given. Defendant was advised of the right and chose to waive it. Thus his statements subsequently elicited in the questioning were properly admitted into evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. U.S.A. Ex Rel. Johnson v. Lane