United States v. Ronald Hamilton, AKA Seal O

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel at “critical stage[s]” of criminal proceedings is not subject to plain error analysis
• holding that a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel at \critical stage[s]\ of criminal proceedings is not subject to plain error analysis
• recognizing that a pre-trial hearing regarding admissibility of evidence is a critical stage of the proceeding
• holding that a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel at “critical stage[s]” of criminal proceedings is not subject to plain error analysis
• holding that “[w]e only review for plain error or assess whether an error is harmless when the error is not structural”
• holding a suppression hearing was a \critical stage\ of the proceeding as it bore on \evidence relating to [the defendant's] case\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).