United States Second Circuit

The Sixth Amendment/due process right to counsel does not apply to a discretionary appeal from an intermediate state appellate court to a state's highest court after the highest court has exercised its discretion to grant leave to appeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/01/2005
• Published 07/01/2005

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before:  NEWMAN, LEVAL, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick J. Walsh, New York, N.Y. (Moses Silverman, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donna Aldea, Asst. District Atty., Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Richard A. Brown, District Atty., John M. Castellano, Asst. District Atty., Kew Gardens, N.Y., on the brief), for Respondent-Appellee.