Michigan v. Jackson

Michigan v. Jackson
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 9, 1985 Decided April 1, 1986
Full case name	Michigan v. Robert Bernard Jackson; Michigan v. Rudy Bladel
Citations	475 U.S. 625 (more) 106 S. Ct. 1404; 89 L. Ed. 2d 631; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 91
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	People v. Bladel, 106 Mich. App. 397, 308 N.W.2d 230 (Mich. Ct. App. 1981); 118 Mich. App. 498, 325 N.W.2d 421 (Mich. Ct. App. 1982); People v. Jackson, 114 Mich. App. 649, 319 N.W.2d 613 (Mich. Ct. App. 1982); People v. Bladel, 421 Mich. 39, 365 N.W.2d 56 (Mich. 1986)
Holding
The Sixth Amendment right to counsel requires that if police initiate an interrogation after a defendant's assertion of his right to counsel at an arraignment or similar proceeding, any waiver of that right for that police-initiated interrogation is invalid.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens, joined by Brennan, White, Marshall, Blackmun
Concurrence	Burger (in judgment)
Dissent	Rehnquist, joined by Powell, O'Connor
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. VI
Overruled by
Montejo v. Louisiana, 556 U.S. 778 (2009)

Michigan v. Jackson, 475 U.S. 625 (1986), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court regarding the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel in a police interrogation. In a decision written by Justice Stevens, the Court held that once an accused individual has claimed a right to counsel at a plea hearing or other court proceeding, a waiver of that right during later police questioning would be invalid unless the accused individual initiated the communication.^[1]

This decision was overruled by the Supreme Court in Montejo v. Louisiana, by a 5–4 vote.^[2]