State v. Morris
The Ohio Supreme Court held that the state right to counsel provides narrower protection than the Sixth Amendment right. The state right attaches only at trial and for “what is reasonably necessary to allow counsel to prepare a defense for trial,” not at a preindictment police interrogation.
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