State v. Sugar

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that interference with confidential relationship destroys counsel’s effectiveness because effective defense can follow “only when a defendant has made full and frank disclosure of knowledge of events surrounding alleged crime”
• noting that \dismissal of a prosecution is the appropriate remedy for official intrusion upon attorney-client relationships only where it destroys that relationship or reveals defendant's trial strategy\
• excluding all evidence derived from violation of the attorney-client privilege, because “the fruits of [law enforcement’s] lawlessness must not be allowed to aid a prosecution in any manner.”
• requiring taint hearing following police investigatory conduct that led to inadmissible evidence
• “[w]ithout the guiding hand of counsel, an innocent defendant may lose his freedom because he doesn’t know how to establish his innocence”
• “Because the Constitution requires the assistance of counsel and not merely his physical presence, counsel must be effective as well as available.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

90 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Marshall
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1991-01-24· cited 445×
• State v. Koedatich
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-08-03· cited 379×
• State v. Timmendequas
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1999-08-11· cited 325×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-12-08· cited 285×
• State v. Harvey
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1997-07-30· cited 272×
• State v. Biegenwald
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-03-05· cited 269×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1983-04-26· cited 268×
• State v. Michaels
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-06-23· cited 230×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2012-10-25· cited 198×
• State v. Hartley
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-07-03· cited 191×
• State v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2002-07-30· cited 182×
• State v. Long
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1990-06-21· cited 164×
• State v. P.Z.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1997-11-26· cited 145×
• State v. Sugar
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1985-07-24· cited 143×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1998-07-16· cited 120×
• State v. Crisafi
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1992-07-09· cited 119×
• State v. Biegenwald
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1991-08-08· cited 105×
• State v. Mejia
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1995-07-12· cited 86×
• State v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2011-03-31· cited 86×
• State v. DiFrisco
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2002-08-14· cited 71×