State v. Nicasio

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring law enforcement officer to make on-the-spot determination of needy status of detainee would subvert purpose of public defender statute
• Act requires notification of public defender if defendant has no attorney and has not effectively waived the right to one
• violation of requirement of public defender act to inform detained suspect of right to counsel requires suppression of subsequent statements
• “[T]he policy reasons underlying Miranda and its subsequent cases require suppression of any statement obtained otherwise than by statutory compliance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).