Michigan v. Jackson | |
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Argued December 9, 1985 Decided April 1, 1986 | |
Full case name | Michigan v. Robert Bernard Jackson; Michigan v. Rudy Bladel |
Citations | 475 U.S. 625 (more) 106 S. Ct. 1404; 89 L. Ed. 2d 631; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 91 |
Argument | Oral argument |
Case history | |
Prior | People v. Bladel, 106 Mich. App. 397, 308 N.W.2d 230 (Mich. Ct. App. 1981); 118 Mich. App. 498, 325 N.W.2d 421 (Mich. Ct. App. 1982); People v. Jackson, 114 Mich. App. 649, 319 N.W.2d 613 (Mich. Ct. App. 1982); People v. Bladel, 421 Mich. 39, 365 N.W.2d 56 (Mich. 1986) |
Holding | |
The Sixth Amendment right to counsel requires that if police initiate an interrogation after a defendant's assertion of his right to counsel at an arraignment or similar proceeding, any waiver of that right for that police-initiated interrogation is invalid. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Stevens, joined by Brennan, White, Marshall, Blackmun |
Concurrence | Burger (in judgment) |
Dissent | Rehnquist, joined by Powell, O'Connor |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. VI | |
Overruled by | |
Montejo v. Louisiana, 556 U.S. 778 (2009) |
Michigan v. Jackson, 475 U.S. 625 (1986), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court regarding the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel in a police interrogation. In a decision written by Justice Stevens, the Court held that once an accused individual has claimed a right to counsel at a plea hearing or other court proceeding, a waiver of that right during later police questioning would be invalid unless the accused individual initiated the communication.[1]
This decision was overruled by the Supreme Court in Montejo v. Louisiana, by a 5–4 vote.[2]