Gonzales v. United States
Gonzales v. United States, 553 U.S. 242 (2008)
Opinion
GEORGE J. GONZALES
v.
UNITED STATES No. 08-7119 Supreme Court of United States.
December 8, 2008.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
How later courts describe this case
Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 20 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.
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(holding that defense counsel may decide whether to consent to voir dire proceedings before a federal magistrate)
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(noting that when the magistrate judge acts under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(3), “the district judge ... is waiting in the wings, fully able to correct errors”)
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(stating that when a magistrate conducts voir dire, "the district judge — insulated by life tenure and irreducible salary — is waiting in the wings, fully able to correct errors”)
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(permitting magistrate judge to conduct jury selection without an explicit personal statement of consent)
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("[S]ome basic trial choices are so important that an attorney must seek the client's consent in order to waive the right.")
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("What suffices for waiver depends on the nature of the right at issue." (internal quotation marks omitted).)
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(“[A] scheduling matter ... is a tactical decision that is well suited for the attorney’s own decision.”)
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(suppression of evidence for alleged constitutional violations is ‘‘the type of trial manage- ment [decision] that can be determined and thus . . . waived by the lawyer’’)
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