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MARTINEZ v. COURT OF APPEAL OF CAL., FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

No. 98-7809.

528 U.S. 152 (2000)

MARTINEZ v. COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

United States Supreme Court.

Decided January 12, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald D. Maines, by appointment of the Court, 526 U.S. 1110, argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner.

Robert M. Foster, Supervising Deputy Attorney General of California, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Laura Whitcomb Halgren, Supervising Deputy Attorney General.*

Stevens, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Kennedy, J., p. 164, and Breyer, J., p. 164, filed concurring opinions. Scalia, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, p. 165.

Justice Stevens, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of our Constitution guarantee that a person brought to trial in any state or federal court must be afforded the right to the assistance of counsel before he can be validly convicted and punished by imprisonment.1 In Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), we decided that the defendant also "has a constitutional...

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