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18 Mar 2013, 2:05 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Stay tuned over the next year as we share more stories about the current state of indigent defense, fifty years after Gideon v. [read post]
7 Dec 2008, 6:56 pm
Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), is a landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. [read post]
16 Mar 2013, 6:48 am by Harold O'Grady
Wainwright that the states must provide an attorney to an indigent criminal defendant who cannot afford one. [read post]
28 Nov 2022, 11:42 am by Alan J. Borsuk
It is nearly 60 years since the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously held, in Gideon v. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 2:25 pm by Harold O'Grady
Wainwright and unanimously ruled later that year on March 18 at 372 U.S. 335 that states had the obligation to provide counsel for defendants who are unable to afford an attorney, extending the Constitutional right to counsel in criminal cases to poor and low-income people. [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 3:30 am
He asked the court to appoint and pay for counsel, but was denied on the ground that the state law authorized appointment of counsel for indigent defendants in capital cases only. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 6:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Wainwright, the US Supreme Court decision that enshrined the right to counsel in criminal cases as a constitutional mandate. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 6:11 am by pfriedman
Wainwright, the Supreme Court ruled that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to representation by a lawyer and that, if he cannot afford one, the state must provide him with one. [read post]