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Public Defender Office hosting Gideon Week to mark major 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAll this week the 19th Judicial Circuit Public Defender Office is celebrating Gideon Week to mark...
Jamie Raskin Explains What America Could Do to Fix the Supreme Court
Slate via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoAs the Supreme Court cloaked itself in the reputational disaster of yet another personal scandal and...
Should people too poor to hire a lawyer fend for themselves? Of course not | Opinion
Modesto Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNational Public Defense Day is commemorated every year on March 18. On that day in 1963, the United...
Gideon v. Wainwright at 60: This is why it matters for Delaware | Opinion
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor years the popular belief has been, if you’re charged with a crime, the last person you want...
'Right to an attorney' only goes so far. Our war on crime leaves injustice in its wake.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSixty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court's Gideon v. Wainwright decision established one of the most...
"Deadlocked" director Dawn Porter: "This very radical conservative Supreme Court is not an accident"
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSupreme Court Justices Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images The foundation of America...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas moves to reverse the legacy of his predecessor, Thurgood...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThurgood Marshall, left, had a very different view of the purpose of the Supreme Court than his...
Feds pick Miami to roll out effort to help indigent get better access to lawyers
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoUnlike the rich, most people accused of breaking the law need a public defender or a private...
It seems the U.S. Supreme Court is ethical like Bermuda has frost warnings
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPoor Abe Fortas. His corpse was lying there in the grave, minding its own business, when we learned...
Stacked elections aren’t free elections. Not even if the NC Supreme Court majority thinks so. |...
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe political activists and legal eagles among us will recall that at the beginning of the summer...