Case Title: Davis v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: cr97-401

State: arkansas

Court: Arkansas Supreme Court

Date: 1997-10-02T00:00:00Z

Document:
Willie Gaster DAVIS v. STATE of Arkansas

CR 97-401                                          ___ S.W.2d ___

                    Supreme Court of Arkansas
                Opinion delivered October 2, 1997


1.   Criminal procedure -- inculpatory statement taken without
     presence of appointed counsel violates right to counsel --
     waiver of right to counsel from police-initiated interrogation
     invalid. -- Bradford v. State, 325 Ark. 278, 927 S.W.2d 329
     (1996), cert. denied 117 S. Ct. 583 (1996) held that an
     inculpatory statement taken without the presence of counsel,
     but after counsel had been appointed at a probable cause
     hearing, was a violation of the appellant's Sixth Amendment
     right to counsel; it contained an analysis of Michigan v.
     Jackson,