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Affirming The Thirteenth Amendment, Douglas L. Colbert
Affirming The Thirteenth Amendment, Douglas L. Colbert
Douglas L. Colbert
No abstract provided.
Do Attorneys Really Matter? The Empirical And Legal Case For The Right Of Counsel At Bail, Douglas L. Colbert, Raymond Paternoster, Shawn Bushway
Do Attorneys Really Matter? The Empirical And Legal Case For The Right Of Counsel At Bail, Douglas L. Colbert, Raymond Paternoster, Shawn Bushway
Douglas L. Colbert
No abstract provided.
Broadening Scholarship: Embracing Law Reform And Justice, Douglas L. Colbert
Broadening Scholarship: Embracing Law Reform And Justice, Douglas L. Colbert
Douglas L. Colbert
No abstract provided.
Liberating The Thirteenth Amendment, Douglas L. Colbert
Liberating The Thirteenth Amendment, Douglas L. Colbert
Douglas L. Colbert
No abstract provided.
The Motion In Limine In Politically Sensitive Cases: Silencing The Defendant At Trial, Douglas L. Colbert
The Motion In Limine In Politically Sensitive Cases: Silencing The Defendant At Trial, Douglas L. Colbert
Douglas L. Colbert
No abstract provided.
Bifurcation Of Civil Rights Defendants: Undermining Monell In Police Brutality Cases, Douglas L. Colbert
Bifurcation Of Civil Rights Defendants: Undermining Monell In Police Brutality Cases, Douglas L. Colbert
Douglas L. Colbert
No abstract provided.
Connecting Theory And Reality: Teaching Gideon And Indigent Defendants' Non-Right To Counsel At Bail, Douglas L. Colbert
Connecting Theory And Reality: Teaching Gideon And Indigent Defendants' Non-Right To Counsel At Bail, Douglas L. Colbert
Douglas L. Colbert
In my article, I critique criminal procedure textbooks' and law professors' limited treatment of the constitutional right to counsel at the bail stage. While explaining that casebook authors usually praise the Supreme Court's landmark decisions in Gideon v. Wainwright and Argersinger v. Hamlin for guaranteeing trial counsel to indigent state defendants, I suggest that they shed minimal light on Gideon's irrelevance to most state defendants when they first appear before a judicial officer. Reviewing leading criminal procedure casebooks, I demonstrate that it is the rare text which informs law students that accused defendants should not expect to find a defense …
Coming Soon To A Court Near You – Convicting The Unrepresented At The Bail Stage: An Autopsy Of A State High Court’S Sua Sponte Rejection Of Indigent Defendants’ Right To Counsel, Douglas L. Colbert
Coming Soon To A Court Near You – Convicting The Unrepresented At The Bail Stage: An Autopsy Of A State High Court’S Sua Sponte Rejection Of Indigent Defendants’ Right To Counsel, Douglas L. Colbert
Douglas L. Colbert
Recently, the Maryland Court of Appeals became the first state court of last resort to reject Gideon v. Wainwright’s guarantee of counsel at the bail stage. In ruling sua sponte that bail is not a critical stage entitling indigent defendants to invoke their constitutional right to counsel, the Fenner Court held that statements offered by an unrepresented and non-Mirandized indigent defendant were admissible at trial. I contend that the Fenner ruling may transform the pretrial fact-gathering process by providing prosecutors with an additional source of evidence against indigent defendants, namely statements made at a judicial proceeding for the purpose of …
The Motion In Limine:Trial Without Jury - A Government's Weapon Against The Sanctuary Movement, Douglas L. Colbert
The Motion In Limine:Trial Without Jury - A Government's Weapon Against The Sanctuary Movement, Douglas L. Colbert
Douglas L. Colbert
No abstract provided.