Texas v. Cobb

Texas v. Cobb
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 16, 2001 Decided April 2, 2001
Full case name	Texas, Petitioner v. Raymond Levi Cobb
Citations	532 U.S. 162 (more) 121 S. Ct. 1335; 149 L. Ed. 2d 321
Argument	Oral argument
Holding
Because the Sixth Amendment right to counsel is "offense specific," it does not extend to offenses that are "factually related" to those that have actually been charged.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas
Concurrence	Kennedy, joined by Scalia, Thomas
Dissent	Breyer, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg

Texas v. Cobb, 532 U.S. 162 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel is offense-specific and does not always extend to offenses that are closely related to those where the right has been attached. This decision reaffirmed the Court's holding in McNeil v. Wisconsin (1991) by concluding that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches at the onset of adversarial proceedings.