Court Opinion

ID: 9435184
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 00:01:50.404108+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:58.455147
License: Public Domain

Chief Justice Roberts, with whom Justice Scalia
joins, concurring.
Justice Thomas’s analysis of the present issue is compelling, but I believe the result here is controlled by Brewer v. Williams, 430 U. S. 387 (1977), and Michigan v. Jackson, 475 U. S. 625 (1986). A sufficient case has not been made for revisiting those precedents, and accordingly I join the Court’s opinion.
I also join Justice Alito’s concurrence, which correctly distinguishes between the time the right to counsel attaches and the circumstances under which counsel must be provided.