Musladin v. Lamarque

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the holding in Cronic requiring automatic reversal when a defendant is denied counsel at a critical stage remains binding regardless of Satterwhite
• holding that the decision not to request a limiting instruction on damaging evidence may be a strategic tactic to avoid drawing further attention to damaging testimony
• stating that we must ask whether the denial of counsel had a “substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury’s verdict”
• explaining that a Sixth Amendment violation occurs when there is a “complete denial of counsel”
• finding defendant had a constitutional right to participate in district court's communication with the jury during deliberation
• finding defendant had a constitutional right to participate in district court's communication with the jury during deliberation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).