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Few Supreme Court decisions have been so universally admired as Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which reversed the burglary conviction of Clarence Gideon, a Florida indigent, because he had been denied free counsel at his trial. The Constitution entitles every defendant to a lawyer, said the court.
Some lawyers predict that Gideon will eventually be extended to juvenile courts which, being noncriminal courts, do not yet guarantee even affluent delinquents the Sixth Amendment right to counsel "in all criminal prosecutions." As a start, the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges plans to provide lawyers for indigent delinquents...
The two merging railroads, which are concentrated in the northeast and midwest, plan to take in the Erie-Lackawanna, the Boston & Maine, the Delaware & Hudson, the Reading and the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Both prospering, the roads aim not only at giving the East two competitively balanced giant rail...
> With some 4,000 persons charged with offenses during the riots, and courts arraigning an average of 300 per day, Los Angeles area bar associations offered their members as court-appointed counsel for indigent defendants.
Until recently, the schools relied largely on state laws, which provided that the body of anyone who died with no known relatives, and whose burial would have to be at public expense, should be sent to a medical school. Such arrangements worked reasonably well until World War II, when prosperity...