Court Opinion

ID: 9568825
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:07:49.482799+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:09:33.225567
License: Public Domain

DENECKE, J.,
specially concurring.
I specially concur to state that in my opinion the Due Process Clause can only be invoked when there is *205state action. The Sixth Amendment is made applicable to the states only through the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment provides: “[N]or shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” I find the requisite state action present in the instant case. Such action consists of the state continuing to confine the defendant and refusing to grant the defendant an appeal although the defendant timely ordered his attorney to appeal and the statute on appeals was not complied with because of the error of defendant’s counsel. Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 US 1, 68 S Ct 836, 92 L Ed 1161, 3 ALR2d 441 (1948).