What is Escobedo v. Illinois?
{{italic title}} {{SCOTUSCase |Litigants=Escobedo v. Illinois |ArgueDate=April 29 |ArgueYear=1964 |DecideDate=June 22 |DecideYear=1964 |FullName=Escobedo v. Illinois |USVol=378 |USPage=478 |Citation=84 S. Ct. 1758; 12 L. Ed. 2d 977; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 827; 4 Ohio Misc. 197; 32 Ohio Op. 2d 31 |Prior=[[Defendant]] [[conviction|convicted]] in Cook County criminal court; Illinois Supreme Court found [[wikt:confession|confession]] inadmissible and reversed, February 1, 1963; on petition for rehearing, Illinois Supreme Court affirmed conviction, 28 Ill. 2d 41; [[certiorari|cert.]] granted, 375 U.S. 902 |Subsequent= |Holding=[[Suspect]]s 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]]. |SCOTUS=1962-1965 |Majority=Goldberg |JoinMajority=Warren, Black, Douglas, Brennan |Dissent=Harlan |Dissent2=Stewart |Dissent3=White |JoinDissent3=Stewart, Clark |LawsApplied=[[Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Sixth]] and [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendments]] }} '''''Escobedo v. Illinois''''', {{ussc|378|478|1964}}, was a [[landmark decision|landmark]] [[United States Supreme Court]] [[lawsuit|case]] decided in 1964. The Court ruled that [[suspect]]s in [[crime]]s have the [[rights|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]]'', {{ussc|372|335|1963}}, that indigent ([[poverty|poor]]) criminal [[defendant]]s had a right to be assigned free lawyers at [[trial]]. ==Background== ===Crime and arrests=== Danny Escobedo's [[brother-in-law]], Manuel Valtierra, was shot and killed on the night of January 19, 1960. Escobedo was [[arrest]]ed without a [[Warrant (law)|warrant]] early the next morning and [[interrogation|interrogated]]. However, Escobedo did not admit anything to the police, and was let go that after