Ex Parte: Bilal Muhammad v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that government may not use an undercover agent to circumvent the Sixth Amendment right to counsel once formal charges have been brought against a suspect
• holding that a cooperating codefendant asking the defendant questions while wearing a wire violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment Right
• holding that the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel is actually \violated when the State obtains incriminating statements by knowingly circumventing the accused's right to have counsel present in a confrontation between the accused and a state agent\
• holding that the Sixth Amendment right to the assist- anee of counsel is actually “violated when the State obtains incriminating statements by knowingly circumventing the accused's right to have counsel present in a confrontation between the accused and a state agent”
• holding that “the Sixth Amendment is violated when the State obtains incriminating statements by knowingly circumventing the accused’s right to have counsel present in a confrontation between the accused and a state agent”
• recognizing the defendant’s “right to rely on counsel as a ‘medium’ between him and the State” in all critical stages of prosecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).