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COM. ex rel. WASHINGTON v. MARONEY

427 Pa. 599 (1967)

Commonwealth ex rel. Washington, Appellant, v. Maroney.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 14, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Houston, with him James M. Carter, and Houston, Cooper, Speer & German, for appellant.

Edwin J. Martin, Assistant District Attorney, with him Robert W. Duggan, District Attorney, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, November 14, 1967:

The seminal decision of Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45, 53 S.Ct. 55 (1932), in which a trial judge's appointment of the entire county bar to defend the Scottboro boys was found to constitute a denial of the "effective assistance of counsel," has produced what is today an axiomatic judicial assumption that any right to representation includes the right to "effective" or "adequate...

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