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Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964)
Massiah v. United States No. 199 Argued March 3, 1964 Decided May 18, 1964 377 U.S. 201
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
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Government agents, while continuing to investigate narcotics activities including those of petitioner, who had retained a lawyer and was free on bail after indictment, without petitioner’s knowledge, secured an alleged confederate’s consent to install a radio transmitter in the latter’s automobile. An agent was thereby enabled to overhear petitioner’s damaging statements which, despite his objection, were used in the trial which resulted in his conviction.
Held: Incriminating statements thus deliberately elicited by federal agents from the petitioner, in the absence of his attorney, deprived the petitioner of his right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment; therefore such statements could not constitutionally be used as evidence against him in his trial. Pp. 201-207.
307 F. 2d 62, reversed.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964) in 377 U.S. 201 Original Sources, accessed November 24, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JI6YHSLX82JLCFJ.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964), in 377 U.S. 201, Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JI6YHSLX82JLCFJ.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964). cited in 1964, 377 U.S. 201. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JI6YHSLX82JLCFJ.
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