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About 70 students, some of them undergraduates, give time to the project, which was founded in 1970 and gets funds for an office manager, supervising attorney, and other expenses from the Law School. Every month PLAP members represent about 25 indigent prison and jail inmates at disciplinary, classification, and parole...
The four groups handle criminal defense, civil work, rent-control cases and prisoner affairs on behalf of indigent people needing legal representation, says Schwarz. "We provide legal services free of charge for people whose income falls below federal poverty levels."
The vote was 8 to 1, and the majority opinion was cast in the sort of expansive language not usually found in the fractionated Supreme Court of late. "A criminal trial is fundamentally unfair," wrote Justice Thurgood Marshall, "if the state proceeds against an indigent defendant without making certain that...
The lone dissenter, Justice William Rehnquist, criticized the decision as "too broad," giving poor defendants what amounts to a new "defense advocate." An indigent may be entitled "to an independent psychiatric evaluation," wrote Rehnquist, but "not to a defense consultant." Kamisar found Rehnquist's dissent "the surprising thing about this...
There is some evidence to support this charge. Investor-owned hospital chains generally follow a policy of sending indigent patients to nearby community hospitals when possible. Humana Spokesman Robert Irvine points out that people who cannot pay are not turned away from the University of Louisville facility, but defends the...