Word: counseling
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legal representation for the poor is usually provided in one of three ways: by a state or county public defender's office, by court-appointed counsel or by contract public defenders who have put in a bid to handle many cases in one jurisdiction. Whatever the system, budget cuts, funding caps and an increase in the number of prosecutions for lesser crimes have created crushing case loads in most jurisdictions and fostered a type of assembly-line justice that often is not justice at all. In Atlanta 25 men line up together to plead guilty and receive their sentences, according...
...spotty as the indigent-defense system is, however, middle-income defendants who don't qualify for court-appointed counsel (the standards vary from state to state) can sometimes end up worse off than the poor. Carolyn Rader, a defense attorney in Indianapolis, says it is common for such clients to deplete their savings or go into debt if they face criminal charges...
Following through on a peripheral investigation, Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr obtained a federal indictment against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, accusing him of submitting a false loan application and of conspiring to defraud the irs in connection with a complex cable-TV deal. Tucker denied any wrongdoing. In a separate development, the counsel obtained a guilty plea from Stephen Smith, a former Clinton gubernatorial aide, for conspiring to misapply loan funds. Neither the Tucker charges nor the Smith plea implicate either the President or Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...recently been drafted by the Boston Celtics, that propelled Congress to act. Then Speaker Tip O'Neill, his ears ringing from the outcry of his Cambridge constituents, pressed House committees for swift antidrug legislation. "We didn't have hearings on this, which is really extraordinary," says Eric Sterling, then counsel to the House Judiciary Committee. The bill was passed without careful consideration of the issues involved...
...that this oversight alone could have meant the difference between conviction and acquittal. Macias' trial lawyer contends that the lack of money was not a factor, noting he devoted eight months to the case, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit disagreed. "The state paid defense counsel $11.84 an hour," the court noted. "Unfortunately, the justice system got only what it paid...