United States Seventh Circuit

Because the appointment of counsel by the federal public defender, without affirmation or acceptance by defendant, does not constitute an assertion of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, a signed statement acknowledging a role in a prostitution ring was properly admitted against defendant, where the right to counsel was waived.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/07/2002
• Decided 07/11/2002
• Published 07/11/2002

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before MANION, ROVNER, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen Ehlke (Argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Tracey A. Wood, Van Wagner & Wood, Madison, WI, Ernesto L. Chavez (Argued), Kohler & Hart, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellants.