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Philip Bailley, 29, seemed the very model of a modern, upwardly mobile lawyer. In 1966, he was the Crescent Cities, Md., winner of the Speak Up for America contest sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. He graduated from Washington's Catholic University law school in 1969, and everybody...
In its landmark Gideon decision of 1963, the Supreme Court proclaimed that any indigent person accused of a felony has a right to free counsel. Two years later, the court had a chance to extend this right to people accused of misdemeanors, but for unspecified reasons it chose to pass...
The impact will be far greater than that of the Gideon decision. Only 338,000 persons were charged with felonies during one recent year cited by the court. In contrast, said Douglas, "it is estimated that there are annually between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 court cases involving...
Even with such a winnowing, however, the decision means that large numbers of additional attorneys will now be needed to defend indigents. Where will all the lawyers come from? Douglas noted that "there are 18,000 new admissions to the bar each year." In a separate opinion, Justices Brennan, Douglas...
>California Governor Ronald Reagan and the Democratic-controlled state legislature put together a welfare-reform bill that both sides claimed to find satisfactory. While it increased payments for a majority of families on welfare, it also provided for some of the nation's strictest welfare controls. Nearest relatives have...