Word: counsel
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...this, says Research Attorney Lee Silverstein of the American Bar Foundation, 26 states have instituted vital reforms. In the American Bar Association Journal, Silverstein reports that the Gideon case has particularly affected Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, where a poor man's right to free counsel previously covered only capital cases. The right now covers felonies in all five states. Florida, which produced Gideon, has set up a statewide public-defender system and now permits law students to defend indigents-as do New York, Colorado, Connecticut and Massachusetts...
...another Gideon effect, says Silverstein, states have begun to follow the federal rule that a defendant must know what he is doing when he waives the right to counsel. Written waivers are now required in North Carolina, West Virginia and Massachusetts. In other states, the number of waivers is declining. Moreover, indigents who request lawyers at the preliminary hearing in any felony case now get them in Utah, Idaho, Illinois, Virginia and New Mexico. As for misdemeanors, Massachusetts now requires counsel in any case punishable by imprisonment. Texas and New York will soon follow suit...
Some lawyers predict that Gideon will eventually be extended to juvenile courts which, being noncriminal courts, do not yet guarantee even affluent delinquents the Sixth Amendment right to counsel "in all criminal prosecutions." As a start, the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges plans to provide lawyers for indigent delinquents in Chicago, Newark, Cleveland and parts of North Carolina...
...prouder of Gideon's impact than Clarence Gideon himself, who was later retried with counsel-and acquitted. Now 55, Gideon is a gaunt gas station attendant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with an unbounded faith in lawyers. "I've seen ignorant white people and Negroes accused of petty larceny," he says, "and if they had a lawyer they'd get six months, but without one they'd get 15 years. I tell you the prisons are full of lifers who wouldn't have got near that much if a lawyer had handled them. I didn...
...approaching, Schlesinger turned once again to the life of action. He has confessed to being "nostalgically for Stevenson, ideologically for Humphrey, and realistically for Kennedy." Fortunately for his future, realism won out. Kennedy, vacationing on the Cape at Hyannis Port, invited him for intimate dinners and sought his counsel. Stevensonians were furious, accused him of being a "turncoat opportunist" who had made "peace with the enemy." His wife announced that she was still for Adlai ("Can't you control your own wife," wrote Bobby Kennedy, "or are you like me?"). His mother was too, but the stately, grey-haired...