Opinion

Stokes v. Singletary

  • 952 F.2d 1567
  • 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 1554
Court
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Filed
Jan 27, 1992
Status
Published
Author
Cox
On the bench
Birch, Cox, Gibson
Cited by
181 cases

finding parties’ dispute concerning defendant’s request for counsel immaterial to issue regarding Sixth Amendment right to counsel where defendant was appointed counsel at arraignment

How later courts described this case

  • finding parties’ dispute concerning defendant’s request for counsel immaterial to issue regarding Sixth Amendment right to counsel where defendant was appointed counsel at arraignment
  • “[w]henever any party files a timely and specific objection to a finding of fact by a magistrate, the district court has an obligation to conduct a de novo review of the record with respect to that factual issue.”
  • criticizing district court’s failure "to accord a de novo review of the magistrate’s factual findings”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

COX, Circuit Judge,

specially concurring:

I concur in the result.

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