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...Philippines to Australia and establish a new international command on the ruins of the shattered U.S.-British-Dutch-Australian setup. He had to respect MacArthur's legitimate pride and ignore the inexplicable pettiness that moved MacArthur to fight against a Medal of Honor for his comrade, Jonathan Wainwright, destined for a Japanese prison camp. Throughout, Marshall never wavered in his belief in MacArthur's military genius...
Like most Americans, Justice Potter Stewart heartily endorsed the Supreme Court's famous decision in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which ordered all American courts to provide lawyers for indigent defendants-at least in the trial of felony cases. What now bothers Stewart is the court's refusal to answer an insistent question: Does Gideon's right to counsel also cover misdemeanors...
...weeks to become a hero. His idea of intelligence duty was to prowl behind the Japanese lines?often in his personal Oldsmobile sedan?probing for weak spots. He found one on Bataan's Mount Natib: a Japanese military battery that was lobbing 70-mm. shells into U.S. General Jonathan Wainwright's beleaguered defenders. Marcos and three privates scouted the battery, trailing two bearded Japanese artillerymen to it, then cut loose. They killed more than 50 Japanese, spiked the guns, and escaped with only one casualty. Marcos won the first of a brace of Silver Stars for the operation...
...justice began in 1960 when he was arrested for armed robbery. Lacking bond, he stayed in jail until his trial at which, without counsel, he was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary. Three years later, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that every defendant, even if indigent, is entitled to counsel, Patton was one of the many prisoners in U.S. jails to apply for a post-conviction hearing...
...famous case of Gideon v. Wainwright, where an indigent did not have the advice of a lawyer at his trial, the court concluded that retroactivity was called for because denial of the right to counsel affected "the very integrity of the fact-finding process." Absence of a lawyer meant a "clear danger of convicting the innocent." The same went for a case where a jury may have relied on an involuntary confession to convict (Jackson v. Denno). "Confessions," said Warren, "are likely to be highly persuasive with a jury, and if coerced, they may well be untrustworthy by their very...