White v. Maryland

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a preliminary hearing was a critical stage because the “petitioner entered a plea before the magistrate and that plea was taken at a time when he had no coun- sel”
• holding that “[w]hatever may be the normal function of the ‘preliminary hearing’ under Maryland law, it was in this case as ‘critical’ a [stage] as arraignment under Alabama law” because “[w]hen arraigned at that preliminary hearing [the unrepresented defendant] pleaded guilty”
• noting that a preliminary hearing became a critical stage by virtue of the fact the defendant pleaded guilty
• presuming prejudice where defendant pleaded guilty at a preliminary hearing before he was appointed counsel
• presuming prejudice where defendant pleaded guilty at a preliminary hearing before he was appointed counsel
• making same critical stage finding for preliminary hearings held prior to formal arraignment in Maryland

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).