SC top judge: 6th Amendment violations “continually” a problem, orders reforms
“It has continually come to my attention that defendants, who are neither represented by counsel nor have waived counsel, are being sentenced to imprisonment.”
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Deportation fears in Georgia fines case
Under the federal rules of civil procedure, the names of the parties of a lawsuit ought to be disclosed, but there are rare times when […]
ACLU knocks South Carolina public defender in debtors’ prison case
The American Civil Liberties Union’s most recent litigation to help end debtors’ prisons includes, at first glance anyway, an unusual if not downright surprising defendant […]