DZIUBAK v. MOTT

No. C7-91-2517.

503 N.W.2d 771 (1993)

Richard P. DZIUBAK, Respondent, v. J. Thomas MOTT and James T. Hankes, Petitioners, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 6, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert H. Humphrey III, Atty. Gen., David T. Schultz, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for appellants.

Richard W. Johnson, Red Wing, for respondent.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.


TOMLJANOVICH, Justice.

In 1962, the United States Supreme Court recognized the right to counsel as one of the safeguards necessary to insure fundamental human rights when it made obligatory upon the states by the Fourteenth Amendment the Sixth Amendment guarantees of the right to counsel. Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S.Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed.2d 799 (1962).

[The assistance of counsel] is one of the safeguards of the...

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