Add to ORKGHalf a generation ago the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright found the Sixth Amendment right to counsel fundamental and essential to a fair trial. Mr. Justice Black, speaking for an unanimous Court, referred to lawyers as necessities, not luxuries. He said the noble ideal of fair trials cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him, and declared that any person hauled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him. One might therefore have expected per curiam reversals, following Gideon, of criminal convictions where assistance of counsel was denied. Instead, several courts upheld such convictions for...
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Martinez v. Ryan, recognized for the first time a limited right ...
In accordance with the provisions of the federal and most state constitutions, a person accused of a...
The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to...
Half a generation ago the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright found the Sixth Amendment right to c...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court unanimously held that indigent state felony defendants ar...
Regardless of one\u27s feelings about the desirability of the states providing counsel for a crimina...
In 1963, Gideon v. Wainwright dramatically changed the landscape of criminal justice with its mandat...
The notion that a criminal defendant ought to have the benefit of a lawyer—paid for by the governmen...
On June 12, 1972, The United States Supreme Court held in Argersinger v. Hamlin, ... that absent a k...
The United States Supreme Court has held that absent a knowing and intelligent waiver, no person can...
“Your Honor, I request this Court to appoint counsel to represent me in this trial,”1 stated defenda...
Scott v. Illinois, 440 U.S. 367 (1979). Over the past forty-seven years, the sixth amendment right t...
Do the Sixth Amendment rights to appointed counsel and jury trial unconstitutionally conflict with d...
During the 1962 Term, the Supreme Court, on a single Monday, announced six decisions concerned with ...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, twenty-three state attorneys general, led by Walter F. Mondale and Edward M...
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Martinez v. Ryan, recognized for the first time a limited right ...
In accordance with the provisions of the federal and most state constitutions, a person accused of a...
The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to...
Half a generation ago the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright found the Sixth Amendment right to c...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court unanimously held that indigent state felony defendants ar...
Regardless of one\u27s feelings about the desirability of the states providing counsel for a crimina...
In 1963, Gideon v. Wainwright dramatically changed the landscape of criminal justice with its mandat...
The notion that a criminal defendant ought to have the benefit of a lawyer—paid for by the governmen...
On June 12, 1972, The United States Supreme Court held in Argersinger v. Hamlin, ... that absent a k...
The United States Supreme Court has held that absent a knowing and intelligent waiver, no person can...
“Your Honor, I request this Court to appoint counsel to represent me in this trial,”1 stated defenda...
Scott v. Illinois, 440 U.S. 367 (1979). Over the past forty-seven years, the sixth amendment right t...
Do the Sixth Amendment rights to appointed counsel and jury trial unconstitutionally conflict with d...
During the 1962 Term, the Supreme Court, on a single Monday, announced six decisions concerned with ...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, twenty-three state attorneys general, led by Walter F. Mondale and Edward M...
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Martinez v. Ryan, recognized for the first time a limited right ...
In accordance with the provisions of the federal and most state constitutions, a person accused of a...
The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to...