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Sir: Now that the Supreme Court has once again rewritten the Constitution, I demand that it apply the same principle on the federal level. It should give California 40 Senators to Nevada's 0 on the grounds that more than half the people in Nevada are Californians supporting the...
Actually, things can be better for the 60% of criminal defendants-up to 75% in New York City-who cannot afford a lawyer. In many cities, the indigent can rely on a growing public-defender system or on agencies like New York City's pioneering Legal Aid Society. Yet...
Beautiful & Unbutchered. Even Vera's most enthusiastic supporters do not claim that the new system will work in all cases, and Vera itself avoids homicide, sex and narcotics offenses as too risky to handle. But the success of the project strongly suggests that many indigent defendants can be turned...
With that landmark opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court last year forced all state criminal courts to appoint lawyers for all indigent defendants charged with more than petty crimes. Since 60% of criminal defendants are indigent, hundreds of U.S. lawyers are in for heavy duty. And since the rule may apparently...
Research into Law. Law reviews-most of them written half by students, half by guest professionals-provide instant research for lawyers drafting briefs, judges writing opinions and convicts honing appeals. California's 1959 overhaul of juvenile courts owed much to a study in the Stanford Law Review. The Supreme...