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WITH this motto gracing last year's annual report, the Harvard Voluntary Defenders (HVD), founded in 1949 "to render free legal service to indigent persons accused of crime," have now moved into their 22nd year of operation. Although some critics may accuse HVD members of too much Raymond Burr and...
Rule 3:11-This ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court permits third-year law students to appear on behalf of indigent defendants in all District Court criminal actions. This is by far the most interesting and valuable experience that HVD members can gain, since it involves work in actual...
The court in finding Tate's imprisonment a violation of his right to equal protection of the laws, sharply limited the traditional power of American judges to sentence poor defendants to "$30 or 30 days." The Constitution, said Justice William Brennan, forbids states to "limit the punishment to payment...
The futurists, together with other leading thinkers, seem to be in general agreement that there is little likelihood of a third World War and that the population explosion (in most of the world, at least) will continue unchecked. "In the indigent two-thirds of the human race," asserts Historian Arnold...
New York City Mayor John Lindsay faces perhaps the most staggering crisis of all. His welfare population?1,100,000, every seventh New Yorker?could constitute the seventh largest municipality in the U.S. The aid bill for that doomed city within the city last year: $1.7 billion, a sixfold increase...