Escobedo v. Illinois

Escobedo v. Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 29, 1964 Decided June 22, 1964
Full case name	Escobedo v. Illinois
Citations	378 U.S. 478 (more) 84 S. Ct. 1758; 12 L. Ed. 2d 977; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 827; 4 Ohio Misc. 197; 32 Ohio Op. 2d 31
Prior history	Defendant convicted in Cook County criminal court; Illinois Supreme Court found confession inadmissible and reversed, February 1, 1963; on petition for rehearing, Illinois Supreme Court affirmed conviction, 28 Ill. 2d 41; cert. granted, 375 U.S. 902
Holding
Suspects have the right to a lawyer while being questioned by police. If police refuse to allow a lawyer, anything the suspect says cannot be used in court.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II William J. Brennan, Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Arthur Goldberg
Case opinions
Majority	Goldberg, joined by Warren, Black, Douglas, Brennan
Dissent	Harlan
Dissent	Stewart
Dissent	White, joined by Stewart, Clark
Laws applied
Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments

Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478 (1964), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case decided in 1964. The Court ruled that suspects in crimes have the right to have a lawyer with them while they are being questioned by the police. This case was decided just a year after the Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), that indigent (poor) criminal defendants had a right to be assigned free lawyers at trial.