United States v. William Dennis Danielson v. United States v. William Dennis Danielson

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• holding that defendant “had a right to counsel only on the offenses for which he had been indicted, and on any other offenses that constituted the ‘same offense’ under the Blockburger test”
• remanding for an evidentiary hearing regarding whether the government used privileged information about the defendant’s trial strategy that it had deliberately obtained through a compensated informant
• clarifying there is no Sixth Amendment violation unless there is “substantial prejudice”
• finding defendant made prima facie showing of prejudice where privileged information “was told to, and preserved by, members of the prosecution team” and “the prosecutor in charge of the case kept much (perhaps all) of this information in his private office”
• court appointed counsel continues on appeal unless defendant’s financial situation changes and he or she is no longer financially eligible
• “[I]improper interference by the government with the confidential relationship between a criminal defendant and his counsel violates the Sixth Amendment only if such interference ‘substantially prejudices’ the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).