What is a state criminal defendant entitled to the assistance of counsel?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Amaya, 180 Cal.App.3d 1, 225 Cal.Rptr. 313 (Cal. App. 1986):
State criminal defendants are guaranteed by both the federal and state Constitutions "the assistance of counsel." 1 This right is to assistance of a lawyer "untrammeled and unimpaired" by the burden of representing "conflicting interests." (Glasser v. United States (1942) 315 U.S. 60, 70, 62
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