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17 Feb 2021, 4:08 am by SHG
The Sixth Amendment, per Gideon, requires that a lawyer be provided to indigent defendants. [read post]
10 Feb 2021, 5:10 am by SHG
For the past few years, following the years of public defenders admitting that they were so grossly understaffed and underfunded that they could not provide effective assistance of counsel, and were in fact failing miserably to fulfill their duty under Gideon to defend the indigent, there has been a concerted push to reinvent public defenders as not just the purest of defense but the most skilled, most dedicated, best of breed. [read post]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A coalition of international legal advocates sent a joint letter Saturday to Professor Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, condemning the growing trend of government officials intimidating and endangering the legal representatives of politically controversial clients. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 2:32 pm by Phil Dixon
This post summarized published criminal and related decisions from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decided in December, 2020, that may be of interest to state practitioners. [read post]
26 Dec 2020, 4:44 am by SHG
If what he’s trying to say is that there isn’t a large market for public defense, then he’s just unaware as a privileged kinda guy about what Gideon means, how we’ve failed it and how many poor people get dragged into the well on a daily basis. [read post]
24 Dec 2020, 3:41 am by SHG
Clarence Gideon may have been a white man, but what came of his case has helped every defendant no matter their race. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 1:34 pm by Amy Howe
” The right to a unanimous jury is the rare right that is on par with Gideon v. [read post]
26 Nov 2020, 1:14 pm by Ezra Rosser
Notwithstanding the persuasive arguments made for and against Civil Gideon, it is less clear why there is such a sharp distinction between civil and criminal legal aid. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 4:00 am by Guest Blogger
Gideon Christian, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 9:21 am by Abby Lemert, Eleanor Runde
Chinese Regulators Suspend Ant Group’s IPO On Nov. 3, Chinese regulators announced the suspension of Ant Group’s initial public offering, taking the financial world by surprise. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 5:01 am by Jon Temin
As former U.S. diplomat Gideon Maltz points out, leadership rotation is also a brake on corruption, because “businesses tend to invest much less in buying influence in countries with party alternation,” and can rein in abuses by incumbents, since “only a leader facing effective term limits has any chance of attaching sufficient costs to future prosecution to be deterred from committing crimes while president. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 2:43 pm by Michel-Adrien
Gideon Christian from the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary published an article on Slaw.ca today entitled Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Racism and the Canadian Criminal Justice System that looks at how data used to train AI tools can perpetuate biases:"Recidivism risk assessment is the process of determining the likelihood that an accused, convicted, or incarcerated persons will reoffend. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 4:00 am by Guest Blogger
Recidivism risk assessment is the process of determining the likelihood that an accused, convicted, or incarcerated persons will reoffend. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 9:03 pm by Joe Whitworth
Lisa Ackerley (top left), Barbara Bray (bottom left), Kate Thompson (top right) and Gideon HendersonThomson was asked about the impact of the pandemic on compliance. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 4:13 am by SHG
” On the one hand, it gave us such critical seminal cases as Gideon v. [read post]
19 Oct 2020, 7:29 am by Brian Leiter
...about himself, his work, his conception of philosophy, his fears, as part of the podcast series run by philosopher Kieran Setiya (MIT). [read post]