Harbison v. Bell

Case Date: 04/01/2009

Harbison v. Bell, 556 U.S. 180 (2009) was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that federal law gave indigent death row inmates the right to federally appointed counsel to represent them in post-conviction state clemency proceedings, when the state has declined to do so. Certiorari was granted by the Supreme Court on June 23, 2008.