CASE 7.2 Is it enough to have a lawyer? Must the lawyer also be competent and effective? The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the effective assistance of counsel as essential to the Sixth Amendment guarantee (McMann v. Richardson, 1970). ​ The Court’s most significant holding regarding the effective assistance of counsel came in 1984 in which case?

Automatic waivers are built on what premise?

In regard to ineffective assistance of counsel, appellate courts must reverse only if the proceedings were fundamentally unfair and the outcome would have been __________ if counsel has not been ineffective.

In which of the following cases was it decided that indigent defendants in a noncapital case in state court have no right to appointed counsel?

Judges are the most prestigious members of the courtroom work group.

Prior relationships are most notable in what kind of crime?

Historically, police officers made an arrest only as a last resort in which crime?

What is one of the most frustrating aspects of being a judge?

The Uniform Crime Reporting’s Type I offenses are also referred to as:

As written by the framers of the U.S. Constitution more than 200 years ago, the right to counsel meant only that a judge could not prevent a defendant from bringing a lawyer to court. Thus, it affected only those who could afford to hire their own lawyers.