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...with attorneys because, wrote Justice Hugo Black, the "noble ideal" of a fair trial is impossible if the poor man must "face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him." In 1972 the High Court extended this rule to all crimes, including misdemeanors, that result in imprisonment for any length of time. But ensuring this right falls, ultimately, on local jurisdictions, which vary wildly from one place to the next. Alabama, for example, has a state cap of $1,000 for out-of-court fees for defending a death-penalty case, while in Indiana the average expenditure on capital cases...
...appeared unprepared for the conditions that Harvard captain Elijah White termed "biblical". Brown's two-man, Dave Fillipone, caught a crab, bouncing the flat part of the oar off the water. The crab turned an even race into one in which Harvard suddenly had a better part of a length lead, which the Crimson would extend even more...
...very difficult to find someone who would be your ideal provider and expect them to stay with you for any length of time," she says. "If they're a bright person and have initiative, which is the kind of person you'd ideally like to have taking care of your children, it means they have other aspirations...
These are issues worth considering at length and leisure. Eastwood does; he is a man who likes to take his time. The picture clocks in at 2 1/4 hours -- a span in which anyone who got past 10th grade could read the book, linger over favorite passages and smoke a reflective cigarette afterward. Part of this time is wasted on a framing story about the affair's impact decades later on Francesca's grown children. The rest is lavished on the warming of two stars and styles as they reach accommodation...
Murphy said that Tadesse used a buck knife--a type of hunting knife with an average blade length of six to eight inches--to stab her roommate and her roommate's friend...