McNeil v. Wisconsin

McNeil v. Wisconsin
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 26, 1991 Decided June 13, 1991
Full case name	Paul McNeil v. State of Wisconsin
Citations	501 U.S. 171 (more) 111 S. Ct. 2204; 115 L. Ed. 2d 158
Case history
Prior	Defendant was convicted of murder, and the conviction was affirmed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari.
Holding
Invoking the Sixth Amendment right to counsel does not implicitly invoke rights secured by Miranda v. Arizona.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · John P. Stevens Sandra Day O'Connor · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by Rehnquist, White, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter
Concurrence	Kennedy
Dissent	Stevens, joined by Marshall, Blackmun
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. V, VI

McNeil v. Wisconsin, 501 U.S. 171 (1991), held that the right to counsel secured by the Sixth Amendment and the right to counsel protected by Miranda v. Arizona^[1] are separate and distinct, such that invoking one does not implicitly invoke the other.