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On remand, 153 So. 2d 299 (Fla. 1963); defendant acquitted, Bay County, Florida Circuit Court (1963) Holding; The Sixth Amendment right to counsel is a fundamental right applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution's Due Process Clause, and requires that indigent criminal defendants be provided counsel at ...
Brown County Circuit Judge Thomas Walsh granted part of a motion made by a group of attorneys representing eight indigent defendants − who are the plaintiffs in this case − by requiring the 10 ...
5.1.3 Certain expenses for indigent defendants. ... 5.1.6 Right to present a defense. ... Such cases have come to comprise a substantial portion of the Supreme Court ...
Case history; Prior: On appeal from the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma: Holding; Where the sanity of an indigent criminal defendant is likely to be a significant factor at trial, the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the state to provide him with access to a psychiatrist to assist in his defense at no cost to himself.
For many defendants, it is in their best interest to testify against co-defendants in exchange for a reduced sentence. To ensure that each defendant is afforded their constitutional right to an effective defense, jurisdictions may have several public defender entities, or a "conflict panel" of private practice attorneys.
Clarence Earl Gideon (August 30, 1910 – January 18, 1972) was an impoverished American drifter accused in a Florida state court of felony breaking and entering.While in prison, he appealed his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting in the landmark 1963 decision Gideon v.
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that law enforcement in the United States must warn a person of their constitutional rights before interrogating them, or else the person's statements cannot be used as evidence at their trial.
The defendants were convicted and subsequently filed appeals. Exercising their only right to appeal as of right, they appealed to an intermediate Court of Appeals (District court of appeal of California, second appellate district), and, being indigent, applied to it for appointment of counsel to assist them on appeal.