Lease Lights, Inc. v. Public Service Co.

How later courts describe this case

• finding procedure that sanctioned seventy-two hour delay between arrest and judicial determination of probable cause permissible under Gerstein
• no error in charge that jury must find "that a mitigating circumstance exists if there is any substantial evidence to support it."
• indigent putative father entitled to appointed counsel in a paternity proceeding; once paternity established, father is responsible for child support and may be incarcerated for failure to provide it
• "[T]he right of an indigent to court-appointed counsel may be found in either a civil or criminal context. If a State’s paternity process could directly lead to incarceration, Lassiter would provide an absolute right to appointed counsel.”
• upholding a seventy-two hour pre-arraignment detention period