Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right to have counsel present at the interrogation is indispensable to the protection of the Fifth Amendment privilege" to choose between silence and speech. Failure to ask for a lawyer does not waive the right to have one. An individual must be told of his right to counsel and reminded that the state will foot the bill if he is indigent...
...interrogation continues without the presence of an attorney, and a statement is taken, a heavy burden rests on the Government to demonstrate that the defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his privilege against selfincrimination" and his right to counsel. And whenever an uncounseled suspect "indicates in any manner" that he does not wish to be interrogated, the police may not question...
While a 1916 football player pounded a 1916 coxswain on the back, the 25th reunion class was finding out what had happened to the College in its absence. William G. Perry, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, Dean Ford, and Dean Glimp led a discussion of "Harvard College Today," which was followed by tours of the University's newest buildings...
...About "Reformers in Crisis" [May 20]: I call your attention to the section of New York's Family Court Act of 1962 dealing with juvenile delinquency. Under it, proceedings are deemed civil, but the juvenile has the right to counsel. He may remain silent throughout the proceedings, and the petition against him must be proven by a preponderance of the evidence. The occasions under which detention may be ordered are defined and limited. It cannot be said of juvenile-court proceedings in the state of New York that they are operating "farther and farther outside the Constitution." Formal proceedings...
...many Florida lawmen cofidently predicted that a crime wave was sure to follow Indigent Clarence Gideon's famous victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, which earned for all American indigents the right to free trial counsel in felony cases. The decision applied retroactively to convicts who had been tried without lawyers, and, just as the lawmen expected, by 1965 Gideon v. Wainwright had freed more than 1,000 Florida prisoners. But predictions of a resultant crime wave, says the Florida Division of Corrections, have turned out to be all wrong...