Jeffrey Vincent Smith v. Jiro J. Enomoto, Director, California Department of Corrections

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• holding that the trial judge’s refusal to provide an expert deprived the defendant of the effective assistance of counsel and due process of law in violation of the sixth and fourteenth amendments
• “The present rule is that an indigent defendant has a constitutional right to investigative services, but that such right comes into existence only when some need is demonstrated by the defendant.”
• “The present rule is that an indigent WILLIAMS v. STEWART 3435 defendant has a constitutional right to investigative services, but that such right comes into existence only when some need is demonstrated by the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).