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Better Not Call Saul: The Impact Of Criminal Attorneys On Their Clients' Sixth Amendment Right To Effective Assistance Of Counsel, Veronica J. Finkelstein
Better Not Call Saul: The Impact Of Criminal Attorneys On Their Clients' Sixth Amendment Right To Effective Assistance Of Counsel, Veronica J. Finkelstein
University of Cincinnati Law Review
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The Antidemocratic Sixth Amendment, Janet Moore
The Antidemocratic Sixth Amendment, Janet Moore
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Criminal procedure experts often claim that poor people have no Sixth Amendment right to choose their criminal defense lawyers. These experts insist that the Supreme Court has reserved the Sixth Amendment right to choose for the small minority of defendants who can afford to hire counsel. This Article upends that conventional wisdom with new doctrinal, theoretical, and practical arguments supporting a Sixth Amendment right to choose for all defendants, including the overwhelming majority who are indigent. The Article’s fresh case analysis shows the Supreme Court’s “no-choice” statements are dicta, which the Court’s own reasoning and rulings refute. The Article’s new …