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More than 75% of U.S. law school graduates are unready for practice, says Supreme Court Justice William Brennan. They leave school without having confronted "one live man or woman who is immediately in need of legal advice." Most of them know too little about criminal law, to say nothing of...
Nearly all Prettyman graduates feel duty bound to spend at least a couple of years carrying on with such public service; about half seem committed to it permanently. As one student put it: "I came here interested in corporate practice and good living. I've been made to feel...
Whenever the Supreme Court expands the rights of the accused, as it did in its famous 1963 Gideon decision requiring free lawyers for indigent felony defendants, pessimists predict that prisoners will win new trials based on the new rights.
Twice this term, Stewart has publicly chided his brethren for passing up chances to tackle the misdemeanor issue. In October came the case of an indigent Little Rock, Ark., Negro busboy, who was found necking with a white waitress and convicted of "immorality," a local misdemeanor. Tried without counsel, he...
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...