Supreme Court of California

The Sixth Amendment right to counsel does not extend to uncharged offenses, even if they are inextricably intertwined factually with charged offenses, but when the right to counsel attaches, it encompasses offenses that even if not charged, would be considered the same offense under the Blockberger test.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/18/2001
• Published 10/18/2001

Judges

•  CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Dennis L. Stout, District Attorney, Grover D. Merritt and William Lee, Deputy District Attorneys, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Robert M. Foster and Rhonda L. Cartwright-Ladendorf, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Paul F. Pfingst, District Attorney (San Diego), Robert C. Phillips and Thomas F. McArdle, Deputy District Attorneys, for the California District Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven A. Torres, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Boston, MA, for Defendant and Respondent.