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· 4/26/2007

United States v. James Edward Lewis

Citations

  • 483 F.3d 871
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 9460
  • 2007 WL 1216526

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that a potential error in admitting Rule 404(b) evidence was harmless because of the presence of DNA evidence
  • “The right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment applies only to ‘critical stages’ of the proceedings against the defendant.” (citing Wade, 388 U.S. at 224–25)
  • “The right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment applies only to ‘critical stages’ of the proceedings against the defendant.” (citing Wade, 388 U.S. at 224–25)
  • “[T]he collection of the buccal swab and the Government’s subsequent use of the DNA results did not violate Lewis’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Melloy, Bowman, Gruender

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