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Supreme Court· 12/12/1977

Moore v. Illinois

Citations

  • 434 U.S. 220
  • 98 S. Ct. 458
  • 54 L. Ed. 2d 424
  • 1977 U.S. LEXIS 163

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an uneounseled identification conducted at a preliminary hearing violated the accused’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel
  • holding that Sixth Amendment violation concerning corporeal identification of the accused without counsel present is subject to harmless error analysis pursuant to Chapman
  • noting that an attorney “can serve both his client’s and the prosecution’s interests by objecting to suggestive features of a procedure before they influence a witness’ identification”
  • noting that an attorney “can serve both his client’s and the prosecution’s interests by objecting to suggestive features of a procedure before they influence a witness’ identification”
  • remanding for harmless error analysis after denial of assistance of counsel at a preliminary hearing
  • remanding case for determination of whether failure to exclude evidence obtained in violation of Sixth Amendment Counsel Clause was harmless constitutional error

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Judges: Powell, Rehnquist, Blackmun, Stevens

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