United States v. Ash

United States v. Ash
United States v. Ash
	Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 21, 1973
Full case name	United States v. Ash
Citations	413 U.S. 300 (more)
Holding
	The Sixth Amendment does not grant a criminal defendant the right to have counsel present when the government uses a photo array to elicit an identification of the defendant from a witness.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr.; Potter Stewart · Byron White; Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun; Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun
Concurrence	Stewart
Dissent	Brennan, joined by Douglas, Marshall
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. VI

United States v. Ash, 413 U.S. 300 (1973), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Sixth Amendment does not grant a criminal defendant the right to have counsel present when the government uses a photo array to elicit an identification of the defendant from a witness.^[1]^[2]

References

^ United States v. Ash, 413 U.S. 300 (1973).
^ Lieberman, Jethro K. (1999). "Lineup". A Practical Companion to the Constitution. p. 287.

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