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' >-"The right to have counsel present at the interrogation is indispensable to the protection of the Fifth Amendment privilege" to choose between silence and speech. Failure to ask for a lawyer does not waive the right to have one. An individual must be told of his right to counsel...
In 1963, many Florida lawmen cofidently predicted that a crime wave was sure to follow Indigent Clarence Gideon's famous victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, which earned for all American indigents the right to free trial counsel in felony cases. The decision applied retroactively to convicts who had...
The Administration has also resisted the temptation to turn its medicare program into a wholly Washington-run operation, even though 22 states had made no use of the earlier Kerr-Mills Act and 28 others frequently offered indigent patients payments that were far too stingy. Despite this record, Washington has...
As a result of Florida Indigent Clarence Gideon's famous victory in 1963, all American adults now enjoy the right to counsel in felony cases. Now Florida may also produce a "junior Gideon" in the case of Thomas W. Parker, 16. Last fall Parker was accused of burglarizing a...
Sir: I am certain that others occupied with defending the indigent join me in commending TIME for its fine coverage of the confessions problem [April 29]. Most criminal convictions in this country are based on confessions obtained from persons with limited education. No educated person would sign a contract disposing...