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Open Drain. The rise in doctors' fees and hospital costs comes as no surprise to the Government, which considered both more or less inevitable. What has been a shock, though, is the way a less prominent medical program has worked out: a system called Medicaid, which was set up...
Unanswered Questions. Though Miranda's specification of police procedure was unusually precise for a Supreme Court decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren's opinion raised many unanswered questions. Every suspect must now be warned as soon as he is "deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way...
In a nation that professes equal justice for all, U.S. jurists have long been troubled by the fact that reality seems to provide quite a bit less justice for the poor. This concern is at the root of the Office of Economic Opportunity's $25 million program of legal...
As for Speck, he was speedily visited and informed of his rights by Cook County Public Defender Gerald Getty, 53, whose office represents 9,600 indigent defendants a year and who has defended 402 murder suspects since 1947-not one of whom has been sent to the electric chair. Declaring...
In the now famous case of Gideon v. Wainwright, where an indigent did not have the advice of a lawyer at his trial, the court concluded that retroactivity was called for because denial of the right to counsel affected "the very integrity of the fact-finding process." Absence of a...