benefit of counsel

"How can you do this hearing without benefit of counsel?"

How much longer are the boys going to be interrogated without the benefit of counsel?"

I had that figured without benefit of counsel.

Mr. Banks was kept in custody and questioned over many days without the benefit of counsel.

"For one thing, Mr. Neubauer will have the benefit of counsel.

Without benefit of counsel, Lieutenant, and fully aware of the penalty for giving a false statement during a police investigation.

Obtained without benefit of counsel."

"This sounds like a pretrial examination without benefit of counsel or mandate of subpoenal What's the point?

Having the benefit of counsel or assistance of counsel means that the criminal defendant has had a competent attorney representing them.

His first lawyer failed to contact him after his arrest and, without benefit of counsel, Mr. Dallas gave the police a signed confession.

As they stump across the country, contestants will get the benefit of counsel from political consultants like Carter Eskew and Bay Buchanan.

With weeks to respond and with benefit of counsel, she intentionally and materially misled a government agency with her absolute claim of "no role."

Criminal suspects, like Sergeant Woodland, are theoretically subject to 23 days of detention, during which time they can be interrogated indefinitely, without the benefit of counsel.

The prisoners were not allowed the benefit of counsel, and indeed the most skilful advocate must have been of little avail before judges who were determined to presume everything against rather than for the accused.

In Act II, the antagonists, a middle-aged university professor and an undergraduate student, return to the scene of the alleged crime to try to settle their case without benefit of counsel, surrogates or, at times, common sense.

As Gartner readily admits, it was not so long ago that players were desperately trying to gain the right to be represented by outside agents, while owners wanted players to enter into contract talks without the benefit of counsel.

But the second time, the professor said, you should refuse to do or say anything without benefit of counsel, because you are probably going to lose your driver's license at the very least, and you may even spend time in jail.

"I may say for the benefit of Counsel," Mason said, "that the question has become necessary because of unforeseen developments, to wit, the fact that Mrs. Doris Sully Kent is going to be a witness."

The third member of the Circuit Court panel, Fortunato Benavides, wrote a blistering dissent: "Burdine should be entitled to a new trial with the benefit of counsel who does not sleep during substantial portions of his trial.

"Listen, Lieutenant, if the scope of your inquiry has centered on me, I think maybe I should have the benefit of counsel, that is unless you have a yearning to join your two young friends out in the Tenderloin."

The lawyer is thrown into jail himself on trumped-up contempt of court charges, Billy is put on trial immediately without benefit of counsel, is promptly found guilty and sentenced to several years of hard labor at the county work farm.

Held: Where the merits of the one and only appeal an indigent has as of right are decided without benefit of counsel in a state criminal case, there has been a discrimination between the rich and the poor which violates the Fourteenth Amendment.

In vacating, the judgment of the state appellate court, the Court stated that where the merits of the one and only appeal an indigent had as of right were decided without benefit of counsel, an unconstitutional line had been drawn between rich and poor.

After intense and prolonged questioning without the benefit of counsel, Victoria Banks, her estranged husband, Medell, and her sister, Dianne Tucker, were all arrested and charged with murdering a baby that - based on the available evidence - was nothing more than a fantasy.

Similarly today's decision requires only the opportunity to have the benefit of counsel at the administrative hearing, but it is difficult to believe that the same reasoning process would not require the appointment of counsel, for otherwise the right to counsel is a meaningless one since these people are too poor to hire their own advocates.