United States v. Harry Veltman, III

How courts have described this case

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• holding the standard for waiving the statutory right to counsel in a civil commitment is \less exacting\ than for waiving the Sixth Amendment right to counsel in a criminal prosecution
• holding a prisoner’s due process right to independent assistance when threatened with involuntary commitment to a mental hospital is subject to lower standard of waiver than Sixth Amendment right to counsel in criminal proceedings
• “The right to counsel varies depending on the context in which it is invoked, as do the requisites for waiver.”
• “The right to counsel varies depending on the context in which it is invoked, as do the requisites for waiver.”
• right to counsel in civil commitment proceeding is statutory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).