The petitioner makes two separate claims under the Sixth Amendment, and we give them separate consideration.
The petitioner's second argument under the Sixth Amendment needs no extended discussion.
"She has a right to change counsel under the Sixth Amendment!" yelled the stepfather, Daniel Walsh.
Is the appointment of legal counsel alone sufficient to preclude police-initiated interrogation without counsel present under the Sixth Amendment?
If the lawyer fails to do that, the client has a claim for ineffective counsel under the Sixth Amendment.
3 The truth of the matter was that respondent was not indigent, and did not have a right to appointment of counsel under the Sixth Amendment.
Under the Sixth Commandment, men and women are asked: "Have I been guilty of any homosexual activity?" Priests, however, are not.
Nonetheless, a midlevel state appeals court ruled that there was no violation of the Constitution's speedy-trial requirement under the Sixth Amendment.
Under the Sixth Amendment, the Supreme Court said last year, a plea is legitimate only if a defendant has had assistance of counsel while considering it.
"Why should that make any difference under the Sixth Amendment?" And Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the government lawyer, "The distinction you're making really doesn't stand up".
It is possible to imagine a case in which the prosecution might so pervasively insinuate itself into the councils of the defense as to make a new trial on the same charges impermissible under the Sixth Amendment.
