Opinion

Orwitz v. Board of Dental Examiners

  • 314 U.S. 706
  • 62 S. Ct. 54
  • 86 L. Ed. 564
  • 1941 U.S. LEXIS 520
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Oct 13, 1941
Status
Published
Cited by
26 cases
Authority
More cited than 93.2%

holding that a defendant could not invoke privilege to prevent his attorneys from testifying in rebuttal to his claim that his attorneys had not adequately advised him of his rights or the plea agreements terms

How later courts described this case

  • holding that a defendant could not invoke privilege to prevent his attorneys from testifying in rebuttal to his claim that his attorneys had not adequately advised him of his rights or the plea agreements terms

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

The motion for a writ of certiorari to correct a diminution of the record is granted. Treating the paragraph which *707 the appellant seeks to include in the record as duly certified, the petition for rehearing is denied. 313 U. S. 546 .

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