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Poor And The Justice System
978 wordsIn 1963, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that every criminal defendant has a right to have an attorney. The poor are appointed an attorney normally known as a public defender to defend them. The poor are given substandard representation in courts due to lack of funds and a broken criminal justice system. The criminal justice system has made strides forward. The Sixth Amendment right to counsel was generally understood as guaranteeing criminal defendants the right to hire their ow...
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2,008 wordsThe framers formed this country with one sole document, the Constitution, which they wrote with great wisdom and foresight. This bountiful wisdom arose from the unjust treatment of King George to which the colonists were subject. Among these violations of the colonists' rights were inequitable trials that made a mockery of justice. As a result, a fair trial of the accused was a right given to the citizens along with other equities that the framers instilled in every other facet of this country's...
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980 words... even on inequality to function. Perhaps David Cole said it best, "Absent race and class disparities, the privileged among us could not enjoy as much constitutional protection of our liberties as we do" (5). The case of Gideon v. Wainwright can be used to illustrate this point. Cole summarizes the case: Clarence Earl Gideon, a penniless Florida man, down on his luck and charged with breaking and entering a poolroom, claims that although he cant afford a layer, he has a constitutional right to...
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Criminal Justice System Based On Race
1,739 wordsRace and its relation to crime is a very inflammatory issue in American politics today. In David Coles Book, No Equal Justice and Randall Kennedys book, Race, Crime, and Law the two authors try to respectively outline the problems of race as it relates to crime and offer some remedies to the problem. David Cole wrote, our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality. Cole has substantial grounds for making this statement. Race and class have long been issues in the criminal justic...
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789 wordsGideon v. Wainwright What most people dont know is that in the past those arrested for a crime did not really have the right to an attorney unless they had money. This became a right because Clarence Gideon, a prison inmate who did not have the money for a lawyer, took a pencil in his hand and wrote his own petition to the United States Supreme Court. Clarence Gideon, without a lawyer, took his case to the highest court in the country and won important rights for all of us. In 1961, Clarence Gid...
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Criminal Justice System Race And Class
984 wordslong live sport The Inequality of American Justice Essay written by N. LeVan David Cole wrote, our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality (5). Cole has substantial grounds for making this statement. Race and class have long been issues in the criminal justice system, but does the system affirmatively depend on inequality? Does the criminal justice system depend on the disparities of the people that it serves? American justice is supposed to be blind. Despite this there have ...
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