McConnell v. Rhay

United States Supreme Court

393 U.S. 2

McConnell  v.  Rhay, Penitentiary Superintendent

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Washington

No. 87, Misc.  Argued: N/A --- Decided: October 14, 1968[1]

The decision in Mempa v. Rhay, 389 U.S. 128, holding that the Sixth Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment, requires that counsel be afforded felony defendants in a proceeding for revocation of probation and imposition of deferred sentencing, should be applied retroactively.

Certiorari granted; judgments reversed and remanded.


Michael H. Rosen for petitioner in No. 458, Misc.

John J. O'Connell, Attorney General of Washington, and Stephen C. Way, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent in both cases.


PER CURIAM.

Notes

  1. ↑ Together with No. 458, Misc., Stiltner v. Rhay, Penitentiary Superintendent, also on petition for writ of certiorari to the same court.

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