Pennsylvania v. Finley

Pennsylvania v. Finley
Pennsylvania v. Finley
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 2, 1987; Decided May 18, 1987
Full case name	Pennsylvania v. Finley
Citations	481 U.S. 551 (more)
Prior history	Cert. to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Holding
	The court below improperly relied on the Federal Constitution to extend the Anders procedures to these collateral postconviction proceedings. Denial of counsel to indigents on first appeal as of right amounts to discrimination against the poor in violation of the Fourteenth Amdnement.
Court membership
	Chief Justice; William Rehnquist
	Associate Justices; William J. Brennan, Jr. · Byron White; Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun; Lewis F. Powell, Jr. · John P. Stevens; Sandra Day O'Connor · Antonin Scalia
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by White, Powell, O'Connor, Scalia
Concurrence	Blackmun
Dissent	Brennan, joined by Marshall
Dissent	Stevens
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Pennsylvania v. Finley, 481 U.S. 551 (1987) was a United States Supreme Court case involving the right to counsel.

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