United States v. Pedro J. Charria

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• explaining that “Patterson’s pragmatic approach supersedes previous rulings of this circuit which, based on the concept of a hierarchy of constitutional rights, called for a higher ‘knowing and intelligent’ standard for sixth amendment waivers than for other waivers”
• knowing and intelligent Miranda waiver also waives Sixth Amendment right to counsel even where defendant is not specifically informed of the indictment
• rejecting the argument that a suspect's lack of knowledge of an indictment rendered his consent to search involuntary
• accused's waiver valid where he understood he was under arrest and the authorities had read him Miranda warnings
• defendant was shown copy of arrest warrant indicating that he was under indictment for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and money laundering

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).