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ral billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson and Mark Rich, authors such as Saul Bellow, David Mamet and Eli

st Stan Goetz, artist Peter Max, cellist Yo Yo Ma, comedian Steven Wright, actor Robert Downey, Jr., several billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson and Mark Rich, authors such as Saul Bellow, David Mamet and Elie Wiesel, and judges, senators, congressmen, governors and other public officials. In addition I ha

the haydays of the Warren Court. Many dealt with the rights of indigent defendants—an issue that came to the fore in the Supreme Court’s decision in Gideon versus Weinright, decided toward the end of the year of my Bazelon clerkship. That decision ruled that every indigent criminal defendant in a serious

d there shouldn't be one kind of justice for the rich and another for the poor, but the scales of the A

the powerful business roundtable ratchets up a costly advertising campaign to cut corporate taxes even more. We can't afford to defend the poor. Oh, Gideon -- fifty years ago your trumpet was a dear, piercing cry for justice, and we've turned a deaf ear. THIS WEEK"s READINGS The simple truth is that i

, 373 U.S. 83, 86 (1963) (holding prosecution's withholding of the confession of defendant's confederate violated defendant's due process rights). 7 Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 342 (1963) (extending Sixth Amendment right to assistance of counsel to indigent state criminal defendants); Powell v. A

lish system of private prosecution as one "by the rich for the rich"); Joan E. Jacoby, The American Pros