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Privatizing Criminal Procedure, John D. King Jan 2019

Privatizing Criminal Procedure, John D. King

Scholarly Articles

As the staggering costs of the criminal justice system continue to rise, states have begun to look for nontraditional ways to pay for criminal prosecutions and to shift these costs onto criminal defendants. Many states now impose a surcharge on defendants who exercise their constitutional rights to counsel, confrontation, and trial by jury. As these “user fees” proliferate, they have the potential to fundamentally change the nature of criminal prosecutions and the way we think of constitutional rights. The shift from government funding of criminal litigation to user funding constitutes a privatization of criminal procedure. This intrusion of market ideology …


Appointed Counsel And Jury Trial: The Rights That Undermine The Other Rights, Russell L. Christopher Apr 2018

Appointed Counsel And Jury Trial: The Rights That Undermine The Other Rights, Russell L. Christopher

Washington and Lee Law Review

Do the Sixth Amendment rights to appointed counsel and jury trial unconstitutionally conflict with defendants’ other constitutional rights? For indigents charged with felonies, Gideon v. Wainwright guarantees the right to appointed counsel; for misdemeanors, Scott v. Illinois limits the right to indigents receiving the most severe authorized punishment—imprisonment.Duncan v. Illinois limits the right to jury trial to defendants charged with serious offenses. Consequently, the greater the jeopardy faced by defendants, the greater the eligibility for appointed counsel and jury trial. But defendants’ other constitutional rights generally facilitate just the opposite— minimizing jeopardy by reducing charges, lessening the likelihood of …


In Their Defense: Conflict Between The Criminal Defendant’S Right To Counsel Of Choice And The Right To Appointed Counsel, Kit Thomas Jun 2017

In Their Defense: Conflict Between The Criminal Defendant’S Right To Counsel Of Choice And The Right To Appointed Counsel, Kit Thomas

Washington and Lee Law Review

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A Justified Obligation: Counsel’S Duty To File A Requested Appeal In A Post-Waiver Situation, Lauren Gregorcyk Sep 2013

A Justified Obligation: Counsel’S Duty To File A Requested Appeal In A Post-Waiver Situation, Lauren Gregorcyk

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Unstoppable V. Unwaivable, Steven Benjamin Mar 2013

Unstoppable V. Unwaivable, Steven Benjamin

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Validating The Right To Counsel, Brandon L. Garrett Mar 2013

Validating The Right To Counsel, Brandon L. Garrett

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Heeding Gideon’S Call In The Twenty-First Century: Holistic Defense And The New Public Defense Paradigm, Robin Steinberg Mar 2013

Heeding Gideon’S Call In The Twenty-First Century: Holistic Defense And The New Public Defense Paradigm, Robin Steinberg

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Problem With Misdemeanor Representation, Erica Hashimoto Mar 2013

The Problem With Misdemeanor Representation, Erica Hashimoto

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Two Rights To Counsel, Josh Bowers Mar 2013

Two Rights To Counsel, Josh Bowers

Washington and Lee Law Review

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“Potential Innocence”: Making The Most Of A Bleak Environment For Public Support Of Indigent Defense, Robert P. Mosteller Mar 2013

“Potential Innocence”: Making The Most Of A Bleak Environment For Public Support Of Indigent Defense, Robert P. Mosteller

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Lamentations, Celebrations, And Innovations: Gideon At 50, John D. King Mar 2013

Lamentations, Celebrations, And Innovations: Gideon At 50, John D. King

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Toward A Right To Litigate Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Ty Alper Mar 2013

Toward A Right To Litigate Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Ty Alper

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Why Gideon Failed: Politics And Feedback Loops In The Reform Of Criminal Justice, Donald A. Dripps Mar 2013

Why Gideon Failed: Politics And Feedback Loops In The Reform Of Criminal Justice, Donald A. Dripps

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Gideon Skepticism, Alexandra Natapoff Mar 2013

Gideon Skepticism, Alexandra Natapoff

Washington and Lee Law Review

The criminal defense lawyer occupies a special doctrinal place in criminal procedure. It is the primary structural guarantor of fairness, the single most important source of validation for individual convictions. Conversely, if a person did have a competent lawyer, it generates a set of presumptions that his trial was in fact fair, the evidence sufficient, and his plea knowing and voluntary. This is a highly problematic legal fiction. The presence of counsel advances but cannot guarantee fair trials and voluntary pleas. More fundamentally, a lawyer in an individual case will often be powerless to address a wide variety of systemic …


Crashing The Misdemeanor System, Jenny Roberts Mar 2013

Crashing The Misdemeanor System, Jenny Roberts

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Too Poor To Hire A Lawyer But Not Indigent: How States Use The Federal Poverty Guidelines To Deprive Defendants Of Their Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, John P. Gross Mar 2013

Too Poor To Hire A Lawyer But Not Indigent: How States Use The Federal Poverty Guidelines To Deprive Defendants Of Their Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, John P. Gross

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Shrinking Gideon And Expanding Alternatives To Lawyers, Stephanos Bibas Mar 2013

Shrinking Gideon And Expanding Alternatives To Lawyers, Stephanos Bibas

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Getting Real About Gideon: The Next Fifty Years Of Enforcing The Right To Counsel, Cara H. Drinan Mar 2013

Getting Real About Gideon: The Next Fifty Years Of Enforcing The Right To Counsel, Cara H. Drinan

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Gideon Was A Prisoner: On Criminal Defense In A Time Of Mass Incarceration, Abbe Smith Mar 2013

Gideon Was A Prisoner: On Criminal Defense In A Time Of Mass Incarceration, Abbe Smith

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Beyond “Life And Liberty”: The Evolving Right To Counsel, John D. King Jan 2013

Beyond “Life And Liberty”: The Evolving Right To Counsel, John D. King

Scholarly Articles

The majority of Americans, if they have contact with the criminal justice system at all, will experience it through misdemeanor courtrooms. More than ever before, the criminal justice system is used to sort, justify, and reify a separate underclass. And as the system of misdemeanor adjudication continues to be flooded with new cases, the value that is exalted over all others is efficiency. The result is a system that can make it virtually painless to plead guilty (which has always been true for low-level offenses), but that is now overlaid with a new system of increasingly harsh collateral consequences. The …


Michigan V. Jackson, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1985

Michigan V. Jackson, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Moran V. Burbine, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Oct 1985

Moran V. Burbine, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Edwards V. Arizona, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1980

Edwards V. Arizona, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Lewis V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1979

Lewis V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Right To Counsel In Grand Jury Proceedings Mar 1969

Right To Counsel In Grand Jury Proceedings

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.