The modern law interpreting the Right to Counsel Clause really begins with the 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, holding that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates Sixth Amendment’s ...
The man accused of murdering his wife and hiding her body for more than a year faced an Amherst County judge on Monday, March ...
What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...
In 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an Alabama case that the preliminary hearing is a critical part of the legal process, thus invoking a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
The court ordered the commission to make a plan on how it will provide continuous legal representation. Prince Frederik dies ...
public trial.... The right to a public trial in the Sixth Amendment is deeply rooted in Anglo-American history, tradition, and values. It reflects, among other things, the Founders’ hostility ...
Wainwright that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to legal counsel for criminal defendants. How states go about providing that representation to indigent ...
AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) - A Kennebec County Superior Court judge has issued an order after the state of Maine was found to have violated the Sixth Amendment rights of defendants who could not afford ...