Pico Neighborhood Assn. v. City of Santa Monica

How courts have described this case

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

• applying Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments in context of state criminal proceeding
• Sixth Amendment right to counsel does not attach at trial of a misdemeanor offense which does not result in actual imprisonment
• although the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to counsel during a misdemeanor prosecution, failure to provide counsel is not unconstitutional as long as the defendant is not punished by imprisonment, even if imprisonment is authorized by statute
• “In all cases, except where the penalty is a fine only, if the court determines that the defendant is indigent and desires counsel, the Public Defender shall be appointed as counsel.”
• counsel not essential for misdemeanor convictions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).