Alabama v. Shelton
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Alabama v. Shelton is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a suspended sentence that may result in imprisonment cannot be imposed unless the defendant was afforded the right to counsel.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alabama v. Shelton canonical | 3 |
| Alabama v. Shelton, 535 U.S. 654 (2002) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T461320 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alabama v. Shelton Context triple: [Gideon v. Wainwright, precedentFor, Alabama v. Shelton]
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A.
Gregg v. Georgia
Gregg v. Georgia is a landmark 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that reinstated the death penalty under revised statutes, holding that capital punishment is constitutional under certain guided-discretion procedures.
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B.
Van Orden v. Perry
Van Orden v. Perry is a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments monument on Texas State Capitol grounds against an Establishment Clause challenge.
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C.
Jackson v. Georgia
Jackson v. Georgia is a United States Supreme Court case that, alongside Furman v. Georgia, addressed the constitutionality and application of the death penalty under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
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D.
Craig v. Boren
Craig v. Boren is a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case that established intermediate scrutiny as the standard for evaluating gender-based classifications under the Equal Protection Clause.
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E.
Shelby County v. Holder
Shelby County v. Holder is a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by striking down the formula used to determine which jurisdictions required federal preclearance for changes to their voting laws.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alabama v. Shelton Target entity description: Alabama v. Shelton is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a suspended sentence that may result in imprisonment cannot be imposed unless the defendant was afforded the right to counsel.
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A.
Gregg v. Georgia
Gregg v. Georgia is a landmark 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that reinstated the death penalty under revised statutes, holding that capital punishment is constitutional under certain guided-discretion procedures.
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B.
Van Orden v. Perry
Van Orden v. Perry is a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments monument on Texas State Capitol grounds against an Establishment Clause challenge.
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C.
Jackson v. Georgia
Jackson v. Georgia is a United States Supreme Court case that, alongside Furman v. Georgia, addressed the constitutionality and application of the death penalty under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
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D.
Craig v. Boren
Craig v. Boren is a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case that established intermediate scrutiny as the standard for evaluating gender-based classifications under the Equal Protection Clause.
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E.
Shelby County v. Holder
Shelby County v. Holder is a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by striking down the formula used to determine which jurisdictions required federal preclearance for changes to their voting laws.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
ⓘ
criminal procedure case ⓘ right to counsel case ⓘ |
| clarifies | scope of Sixth Amendment right to counsel for suspended sentences ⓘ |
| hasAreaOfLaw |
constitutional law
ⓘ
criminal law ⓘ criminal procedure ⓘ |
| hasArgumentDate | January 8, 2002 ⓘ |
| hasCitation |
122 S. Ct. 1764
ⓘ
152 L. Ed. 2d 888 ⓘ 535 U.S. 654 ⓘ |
| hasConcurrenceBy | Anthony M. Kennedy ⓘ |
| hasConstitutionalProvision |
Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Constitution, Sixth Amendment
|
| hasCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| hasDecisionDate | May 20, 2002 ⓘ |
| hasDefendantStatus | uncounseled defendant received a suspended jail sentence and probation ⓘ |
| hasDissentBy |
Anthony M. Kennedy
ⓘ
Antonin Scalia ⓘ Clarence Thomas ⓘ William H. Rehnquist ⓘ |
| hasDocketNumber | 00-1214 ⓘ |
| hasHolding |
A suspended sentence that may result in imprisonment may not be imposed unless the defendant was afforded the right to counsel.
ⓘ
The Sixth Amendment right to appointed counsel applies to a defendant given a suspended sentence that may lead to incarceration upon violation of probation. ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Constitution, Sixth Amendment
|
| hasImpact | limits states’ ability to impose suspended sentences without providing counsel ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | federal ⓘ |
| hasKeyPrinciple |
Actual imprisonment may not be imposed unless the defendant was provided counsel or validly waived counsel.
ⓘ
The right to counsel extends to cases where a suspended sentence may result in incarceration upon probation revocation. ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasLegalIssue |
Sixth Amendment
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Constitution, Sixth Amendment
imprisonment ⓘ right to counsel ⓘ suspended sentence ⓘ |
| hasMajorityJustices |
David H. Souter
ⓘ
John Paul Stevens ⓘ Ruth Bader Ginsburg ⓘ Sandra Day O’Connor ⓘ Stephen G. Breyer ⓘ |
| hasMajorityOpinionBy | Ruth Bader Ginsburg ⓘ |
| hasOpinionType | majority opinion ⓘ |
| hasPetitioner |
State of Alabama
ⓘ
linked to:
Alabama
|
| hasPrecedentFor | right to counsel in misdemeanor cases with suspended sentences ⓘ |
| hasProceduralPosture | review of decision of the Supreme Court of Alabama ⓘ |
| hasRelatedCase |
Argersinger v. Hamlin
ⓘ
Scott v. Illinois ⓘ |
| hasRespondent | LeRoy Shelton ⓘ |
| hasStateCourt | Supreme Court of Alabama ⓘ |
| hasTimePeriod | Rehnquist Court ⓘ |
| hasVote | 5-4 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Alabama v. Shelton Description of subject: Alabama v. Shelton is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a suspended sentence that may result in imprisonment cannot be imposed unless the defendant was afforded the right to counsel.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alabama v. Shelton