For years the popular belief has been, if you’re charged with a crime, the last person you want representing you is a public defender. The image of a public defender is an overworked, underpaid hack ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Bruce R. Jacob was an Assistant Attorney General for Florida with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1964 Vignette. The year with the most ...
This week marks the 60th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court case that guaranteed criminal defendants the right to a lawyer. That guarantee has been challenged by budgets and high demand. This ...
Sixty years ago today, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright. The court held that states must abide by the Sixth Amendment and that those whose liberty is threatened ...
March 18 is the anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, a case from 1963 in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that every person accused of a crime in America must be provided with legal ...
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