Source: https://openjurist.org/415/us/936
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 18:10:33+00:00

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NORTH CAROLINA and David Henry, Warden.
'This does not mean, as some have suggested, that each police station must have a 'station house lawyer' present at all times to advise prisoners. It does mean, however, that if police propose to interrogate a person they must make known to him that he is entitled to a lawyer and that if he cannot afford one, a lawyer will be provided for him prior to any interrogation.' 384 U.S., AT 474, 86 S.Ct. 1602 (emphasis added).
We are, of course, the only source of resolution for this conflict and it is our obligation to provide uniformity on such important federal constitutional questions. In reforming the Court's jurisdiction in 1925 the purpose was to allow us to 'hear and determine those cases which should alone engage [our] attention,' since under the prior law the Court was 'hindered from . . . efficiently functioning in the performance of its highest duty of interpreting the Constitution and preserving uniformity of decision by the intermediate courts of appeals.' H.R.Rep.No.1075, 68th Cong., 2d Sess., at 2 (1925). Mr. Justice Van Devanter had told Congress that the prime consideration in the exercise of discretionary jurisdiction was 'whether the case is of such a character that the last word, the ultimate guiding rule, should be announced by the Supreme Court, so that there may be uniformity of decision in the several circuits courts of appeal, and also uniformity of decision in the State Courts insofar as federal matters are concerned.' Hearings before Subcomm. of Sen. Comm. on Judiciary, 68th Cong., 1st Sess., at 29-30 (1924).
Because of the present conflict, the extent of one's federal constitutional rights varies according to the State or Circuit in which the question is presented. I would grant certiorari in order to resolve the issue and provide uniformity.
United States ex rel. Williams v. Twomey, 467 F.2d 1248 (CA 7 1972); United States v. Garcia, 431 F.2d 134 (CA 9 1970); Coyote v. United States, 380 F.2d 305 (CA 10 1967), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 992, 88 S.Ct. 489, 19 L.Ed.2d 484.
Massimo v. United States, 463 F.2d 1171 (CA 2 1971), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 1117, 93 S.Ct. 920, 34 L.Ed.2d 700; United States v. Lacy, 446 F.2d 511 (CA 5 1971); Klingler v. United States, 409 F.2d 299 (CA 8 1969).
Square v. State, 283 Ala. 548, 219 So.2d 377 (1969); Moore v. State, 251 Ark. 436, 472 S.W.2d 940 (1971); State v. Grierson, 95 Idaho 155, 504 P.2d 1204 (1972) (dicta); State v. Carpenter, 211 Kan. 234, 505 P.2d 753 (1972); Reese v. State, 499 P.2d 450 (Okla.Cr.App.1972); State v. Creach, 77 Wash.2d 194, 461 P.2d 329 (1969).
People v. Williams, 131 Ill.App.2d 149, 264 N.E.2d 901 (1970); Jones v. State, 253 Ind. 235, 252 N.E.2d 572 (1969); People v. Campbell, 26 Mich.App. 196, 182 N.W.2d 4 (1970), cert. denied, 401 U.S. 945, 91 S.Ct. 960, 28 L.Ed.2d 228 (1971); Evans v. State, Miss., 275 So.2d 83 (1973); People v. Swift, 32 A.D.2d 183, 300 N.Y.S.2d 639 (1969), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 1018, 90 S.Ct. 584, 24 L.Ed.2d 510 (1970).

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