Iowa v. Tovar
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iowa-v-tovar-239-3567028
title:
Iowa v. Tovar
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Iowa v. Tovar, 541 U.S. 77 (2004), was a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that clarified how well-informed a defendant had to be to waive their right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment. The defendant in this case had waived his right to counsel and pled guilty to drunk driving, and then had been convicted of drunk driving twice more, with sentences increasing as his convictions piled up. He argued that the judge in the first case had not explained that multiple drun
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2004 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_v._Tovar
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2023-09-27T09:07:36Z
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