Sixth Amendment jury trial right’s “fair cross-section” requirement demands no particular method for determining fair representation of “distinctive groups.”
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Padilla v. Kentucky, No. 08–651, __ U.S. __ (Mar. 31, 2010)
Under the Sixth Amendment Strickland standard for effective assistance of counsel, “constitutionally competent counsel would have advised [the defendant] that his conviction for drug distribution made him subject to automatic deportation.”
Florida v. Powell, No. 08–1175, __ U.S. __ (Feb. 23, 2010)
Advice that a suspect has “the right to talk to a lawyer before answering any of [the law enforcement officers’] questions,” and that he can invoke this right “at any time. . . during th[e] interview,” satisfies Miranda requirement of advice of suspect’s right to have a lawyer with him during interrogation.
Maryland v. Shatzer, No. 08–680, __ U.S. __ (Feb. 24, 2010)
Adopts a brightline rule that a fourteen-day break in Miranda custody ends the presumption of involuntariness established in Edwards v. Arizona for responses to police-initiated questioning after a subject has invoked the right to have Miranda counsel present during interrogation; a subject incarcerated for an unrelated crime is not in Miranda custody for purposes of this fourteen-day rule.
Presley v. Georgia, No. 09-5270, __ U.S. __ (Jan. 19, 2010)
Defendant’s Sixth Amendment public trial right requires that jury selection be open to the public.