Add to ORKGWhereas in 2013 there had been widespread celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, much has been written in subsequent years about the unhappy state of the quality of counsel provided to indigents. But it is not just defense counsel who fail to comply with all that we hope and expect would be done by those who are part of our criminal courts; prosecutorial misconduct, if not actually increasing, is becoming more visible. The judiciary chooses to focus on the rapid processing of cases, often ignoring the rights of those being prosecuted – rights the judges have sworn to protect. But we must ask why has this country tolerated a criminal justice system which has been so dysfunction...
There is general agreement that the “promise” of Gideon has been systematically denied to large numb...
Twenty years ago, in McCleskey v. Kemp, the Supreme Court rejected a capital defendant\u27s claim th...
Twenty years ago, in McCleskey v. Kemp, the Supreme Court rejected a capital defendant\u27s claim th...
Whereas in 2013 there had been widespread celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Su...
The severe underfunding of the nation\u27s Public Defender System has jeopardized the criminal defen...
The United States has recently been engaged in some of the largest civil rights movements since the ...
The severe underfunding of the nation\u27s Public Defender System has jeopardized the criminal defen...
Critics of the criminal justice system observe that the promise of Gideon v. Wainwright remains unfu...
Critics of the criminal justice system observe that the promise of Gideon v. Wainwright remains unfu...
The U. S. criminal justice system has undergone radical changes in the past generation. Crime is mor...
The ration of legal services for the poor person accused of a crime has been remarkably thin in most...
The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees criminal defendants the right to counsel, an...
The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees criminal defendants the right to counsel, an...
This Article addresses the Supreme Court\u27s application of the Equal Protection Clause to the sele...
In 1963, Gideon v. Wainwright dramatically changed the landscape of criminal justice with its mandat...
There is general agreement that the “promise” of Gideon has been systematically denied to large numb...
Twenty years ago, in McCleskey v. Kemp, the Supreme Court rejected a capital defendant\u27s claim th...
Twenty years ago, in McCleskey v. Kemp, the Supreme Court rejected a capital defendant\u27s claim th...
Whereas in 2013 there had been widespread celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Su...
The severe underfunding of the nation\u27s Public Defender System has jeopardized the criminal defen...
The United States has recently been engaged in some of the largest civil rights movements since the ...
The severe underfunding of the nation\u27s Public Defender System has jeopardized the criminal defen...
Critics of the criminal justice system observe that the promise of Gideon v. Wainwright remains unfu...
Critics of the criminal justice system observe that the promise of Gideon v. Wainwright remains unfu...
The U. S. criminal justice system has undergone radical changes in the past generation. Crime is mor...
The ration of legal services for the poor person accused of a crime has been remarkably thin in most...
The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees criminal defendants the right to counsel, an...
The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees criminal defendants the right to counsel, an...
This Article addresses the Supreme Court\u27s application of the Equal Protection Clause to the sele...
In 1963, Gideon v. Wainwright dramatically changed the landscape of criminal justice with its mandat...
There is general agreement that the “promise” of Gideon has been systematically denied to large numb...
Twenty years ago, in McCleskey v. Kemp, the Supreme Court rejected a capital defendant\u27s claim th...
Twenty years ago, in McCleskey v. Kemp, the Supreme Court rejected a capital defendant\u27s claim th...