United States v. Samuel Constanza Alvarado

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the filing of a federal criminal complaint “does not give rise to any Sixth Amendment right” because it “does not commence a formal prosecution”
• stating that, for Sixth Amendment purposes, “[t]he filing of a federal criminal complaint does not commence a formal prosecution”
• stating that, for Sixth Amendment purpos- es, “[t]he filing of a federal criminal complaint does not commence a formal prosecution”
• “By its own terms, the Sixth Amendment applies to ‘criminal prosecutions ’ as opposed to criminal investigations.”
• “The filing of a federal criminal complaint does not commence a formal prosecution.”
• “The filing of a federal criminal complaint does not commence a formal prosecution. Rather, the main reason a law enforcement officer files such a complaint is to establish probable cause for an arrest warrant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).