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...President-elect Spann will take office next August. Chicago Corporate Lawyer Justin A. Stanley, 65, heads the A.B.A. this year and plans to push his pet project: getting more legal conflicts out of the courts and into arbitration, mediation and lawyerless small-complaint tribunals...
...time of the Gideon decision, four states in addition to Florida-Alabama, Mississippi and the two Carolinas -had no laws requiring counsel for indigent defendants except in capital cases. Since then, the legislatures in Alabama and North Carolina have passed measures to provide counsel for lawyerless defendants in all felony cases. Mississippi courts have adopted a policy of appointing counsel for defendants charged with felonies, and South Carolina judges no longer permit defendants without counsel to plead guilty. In all four states, prisoners have petitioned for review of their cases...
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