Invoking the Right to Counsel: Conflicts of Speech, Status, and Recognition
“Rights are not rationed . . . A right is a claim that must be granted, regardless of cost or supply.”
Lawrence M. Friedman, Two Faces of Law, 1984 Wisconsin Law Review 13, 19 (1984) In many jurisdictions across the United States invoking the right to counsel is not as simple as it may seem. In Miranda v. Arizona the Supreme Court introduced a rule requiring that any person subject to custodial interrogation must be informed of their constitutional rights. Miranda v. Arizon