Pfeil v. Rutland District Court

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “statutory right to counsel that attaches prior to testing includes the right to communicate freely with an attorney in private”
• ruling that when defendant was handcuffed to the wall he no longer presented a security risk, and therefore police could not justifiably monitor his conversation with an attorney
• stating that detainee must be afforded “meaningful opportunity to consult with counsel”
• Carmody governs where officers listen to conversations between the OUI detainee and the contacted public defender
• Carmody governs where officers listen to conversations between the OUI detainee and the contacted public defender
• “Had defendant been afforded a meaningful opportunity to consult with counsel, he may well have submitted to testing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).