Word: counseling
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...case is fantasy land,'' says Scott Wallace, special counsel to the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's not real life in the criminal justice system." And it would be unfortunate if the public's avid consumption of this and other trials of the rich and famous -- the Menendez brothers, Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith -- left the general impression that our criminal justice system routinely allows defendants a thorough and aggressive defense, in which no fact goes unchallenged or theory unexplored. In fact, the report that Spangenburg co-authored for the A.B.A. concluded that the indigent defense system...
...felony defendants in the U.S., Haney was too poor to hire her own lawyer and was represented by court-appointed attorneys. In the Supreme Court's landmark 1963 decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, the Justices cited the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to counsel and declared that indigent defendants accused of felonies must be provided with attorneys because, wrote Justice Hugo Black, the "noble ideal" of a fair trial is impossible if the poor man must "face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him." In 1972 the High Court extended this rule to all crimes, including misdemeanors, that...
MATEP's board of directors has seven members,all Harvard-affiliated, including Yeaple, VicePresident for Administration Sally N. Zeckhauser,Vice President of Finance Alan J. Proctor '74 andVice President and General Counsel Margaret H.Marshall...
...Neil Rudenstine is an effective, respected andeloquent advocate for higher education inWashington," the senator tells The Crimson. "Iparticularly value his counsel now when many vitalaspects of education and student aid are undersiege in Congress...
...last week, the search committee hadreceived about 250 applications, according toformer vice-president and general counsel DanielSteiner, chair of the committee. A few are stilltrickling in after the mid-May deadline, he said...