KUREN v. LUZERNE COUNTY

No. 57 MAP 2015 No. 58 MAP 2015.

146 A.3d 715 (2016)

Adam KUREN and Steven Allabaugh, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Appellants v. LUZERNE COUNTY of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Robert C. Lawton, County Manager, in His Official Capacity, Appellees Adam Kuren and Steven Allabaugh, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Appellants v. Luzerne County of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Robert C. Lawton, County Manager, in His Official Capacity, Appellees

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

DECIDED: September 28, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marrisa Boyers Bluestine, Esq. , Temple University School of Law, Terence Martin Grugan, Esq. , Ballard Spahr, LLP, for The Innocence Network & The PA Innocence Project, Amicus Curiae.

Paulette Brown, Esq. , Edward W. Madeira Jr., Esq. , Eli Mordecai Segal, Esq. , Pepper Hamilton LLP, for American Bar Association, Amicus Curiae.

Arleigh Pritchard Helfer III, Esq. , Paul H. Titus, Esq. , Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP, for National Assoc. of Criminal Defense Lawyers & PA Assoc. of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amicus Curiae.

Nathaniel Pollock, Esq. , for United States, Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, Amicus Curiae.

Kimberly D. Borland, Esq. , Borland & Borland, L.L.P., Vermon L. Francis, Esq. , Sean Patrick McConnell, Esq. , Katherine Elizabeth Unger, Esq. , Michelle Hart Yeary, Esq. , Dechert, LLP, Dina L. Hardy, Esq. , Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Mary Catherine Roper, Esq. ,

David Rudovsky, Esq. , Kairys, Rudovski, Messing & Feinberg, Martha Meredith Tack-Hooper, Esq. , ACLU of, Pennsylvania, Witold J. Walczak, Esq. , American Civil Liberties Union of PA, for Adam Kuren, Steven Allabaugh, and all others similarly situated, Appellant.

James C. Crumlish III, Esq. , Deborah Hart Simon, Esq. , Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski, P.C., John G. Dean, Esq. , for Luzerne County and Robert C. Lawton, Appellees.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, JJ.


OPINION

The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution safeguards some of our basic liberties. Among its protections is the guarantee that, "[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall ... have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." U.S. Const., Amend VI. In the seminal case of

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