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Author: Marceau, Justin F

Title: Gideon's Shadow

Summary: The right to counsel is regarded as a right without peer, even in a field of litigation saturated with constitutional protections. But from this elevated, elite-right status, the right to counsel casts a shadow over the other, less prominent criminal procedure rights. Elaborating on this paradoxical aspect of the Gideon right – that the very prominence of the right tends to dilute other rights, or at least justify limitations on non-Gideon rights – this essay analyzes the judicial and scholarly practice of employing the counsel right as a cudgel to curb other rights.

Details: Denver: University of Denver Sturm College of Law. 2013. 23p.

Source: Internet Resource: Legal Research Paper Series
Working Paper No. 13-20: Accessed May 8, 2013 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2248366

Year: 2013

Country: United States

URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2248366

Shelf Number: 128678

Keywords:
Assistance to the Poor
Indigent Defence (U.S.)
Legal Aid
Public Defenders