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The Right To Counsel In Criminal Cases: Still A National Crisis?, Mary Sue Backus, Paul Marcus
The Right To Counsel In Criminal Cases: Still A National Crisis?, Mary Sue Backus, Paul Marcus
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In 1963, Gideon v. Wainwright dramatically changed the landscape of criminal justice with its mandate that poor criminal defendants be entitled to legal representation funded by the government. As scholars and practitioners have noted repeatedly over more than fifty years, states have generally failed to provide the equal access Gideon promised. This Article revisits the questions raised by the authors over a decade ago when they asserted that a genuine national crisis exists regarding the right to counsel in criminal cases for poor people. Sadly, despite a few isolated instances where litigation has sparked some progress, the issues remain the …
Why The United States Supreme Court Got Some [But Not A Lot] Of The Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel Analysis Right, Paul Marcus
Why The United States Supreme Court Got Some [But Not A Lot] Of The Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel Analysis Right, Paul Marcus
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The Right To Counsel In Criminal Cases, A National Crisis, Mary Sue Backus, Paul Marcus
The Right To Counsel In Criminal Cases, A National Crisis, Mary Sue Backus, Paul Marcus
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No abstract provided.