What is the effect of the sixth amendment's guarantee of the assistance of counsel in criminal proceedings?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Adams v. Carroll, 875 F.2d 1441 (9th Cir. 1989):
The sixth amendment's guarantee of the assistance of counsel is unusual among constitutional rights in that it is also implicitly a guarantee of its opposite, the right to refuse the assistance of counsel. Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 819, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 2533, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975). 2 A criminal defendant thus has a
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