QUICKSALL v. MICHIGAN

No. 33.

339 U.S. 660 (1950)

QUICKSALL v. MICHIGAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 5, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isadore Levin argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General of Michigan, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Stephen J. Roth, Attorney General, and Daniel J. O'Hara, Assistant Attorney General.


MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner is in custody of the State of Michigan under a sentence of life imprisonment for first-degree murder, confirmed upon collateral attack by a judgment of the Supreme Court of Michigan, here challenged. He claims that he was deprived of his right to counsel to the extent that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment secures that right. The generalizations that are relevant to such a claim...

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