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...index of the state of the Texas legal system is that another provision of the bill would have guaranteed suspects the right to meet with a lawyer within 20 days--almost three weeks--of their incarceration. In most areas of the U.S., the accused rarely spend 72 hours in jail before they receive a lawyer.) Both houses of the Texas legislature voted unanimously--unanimously--in the bill's favor, and the overdue reform seemed likely to become a reality...
...agreeably followed with a veto, saying that the changes were too "drastic" and judges were "better able to assess the quality of legal representation" than county officials. He also stated that the requirement that the state release suspects who had not been assigned a lawyer after 20 days in jail "poses a danger to public safety...
...being held in jail until his November trail. He is kept in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, and, until recently, he was not able to speak his native Mandarin Chinese...
...Eighty-three innocent people died, to be exact. Instead of Jackson being carted off to jail and being dishonorably discharged, however, he is revered as a hero...
...President faces steep fines and even jail time for his alleged misdeeds. To an extent, as a private citizen the odds are stacked against him. The independent counsel does not have the same time or cost constraints as a traditional prosecutor - in fact, he has a team of lawyers devoted exclusively to building as many separate cases as possible against a single defendant. This power is somewhat nullified in the courtlike settings of an impeachment trial, as congressmen are given to partisanship and voting the will of the public. Such benefits would be lost in a jury trial...