Word: dejoseph
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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Last week Stewart again dissented when the court refused to review the Connecticut case of John DeJoseph, charged with criminal nonsupport. Two Hartford judges denied DeJoseph's requests for indigent's counsel because the charge was only a misdemeanor; DeJoseph tried to defend himself and went to jail for six months. By contrast, a Connecticut federal court recently freed another man who had been jailed for exactly the same offense, simply because the state failed to tell him that he had a right to a lawyer. Said Stewart: "When the meaning of a fundamental constitutional right depends...
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