Gideon v. Wainwright Facts Defendant Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaken and entering a poolroom with intent to commit a misdemeanor. Defendant was denied request for appointed counsel on the grounds that under the laws of Florida only a defendant charged with a capital offense was entitled to such an appointment. Defendant was without funds. Defendant conducted his own defense. Defendant was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment of five years in the state prison. Defendant filed
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Biography of SP5 CLARENCE E. SASSER Created by: SPC Roche‚ Paulin Biography Born • • • • : September 12‚ 1947 Chenango‚ Texas Branch/tour : United States Army (1967 – 1968) Unit : 60th Infantry Regiment‚ 9th Infantry Division Wars / Battle : Vietnam War Award / Badges : Medal of Honor Purple Heart Combat Medical Badge Expert Marksmanship Badge Biography Cont. Clarence Sasser was drafted into the United States Army after giving up his college deferment at the University of Houston. PFC
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Clarence Darrow was a trustful lawyer and‚ also a journalist he was important to America because he helped people prove their innocence and their rights‚ he made a speech about “PLea of Mercy.” He was the best lawyer that anybody could of rely on. Clarence Seward Darrow was born in Kinsman‚Ohio on April 18‚1857 he was the fifth child of Amirus and Emily Darrow’s eight children. The whole family was a Democrats in a strongly Republican area. Darrow recieved a love for reading and‚ a skeptical attitude
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A Summary of Clarence Darrow’s “Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail” Clarence Darrow‚ an American lawyer‚ was already one of the most famous labour attorneys when he was invited in 1902 to give a speech to the Chicago’s Cook County Jail prisoners. In his address to the inmates (a stenographic copy of his speech was published in Crime & Criminals: Address To The Prisoners In The Cook County Jail & Other Writings On Crime & Punishment) Darrow states his believes that majority of the offenders
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Character Description Memento Mori: Earl In “Memento Mori” by Jonathan Nolan‚ the reader is introduced to an intriguing character by the name Earl. Earl is an average‚ “run of the mill” man‚ who (like most others) has a few quirks that set him aside from the crowd. The beginning of the story reveals that Earl’s wife was murdered. Like most strive to do‚ Earl strives for revenge for her death. He takes the initiative to seeking out his revenge by attempting to track down the murderer.
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BOARD OF EDUCATION v. EARLS Criminal Courts bOARD OF EDUCATION V. EARLS The Issue before the court was that two high school sophomores Lindsay Earls and Daniel James along with their families challenged their schools drug testing policy as an unlawful search that violated student’s right to privacy. They alleged that their policy requiring students to consent to random urinalysis testing for drug use violated the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The student activities
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and that total is steadily rising.1 A particular optometry pioneer‚ Dr. Earl Smith III‚ OD‚ PhD‚ has worked diligently throughout his career to aid the children of myopic parents from developing the condition. Dr. Smith has made multiple important contributions to the field of optometry and continues to today at the University of Houston. His career began many years ago‚ and his spirit to help started at a young age. Dr. Earl Smith was born in the late 1940s in Norfolk‚ VA after World War II had
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not before dropping the murder weapon (with prints) and his personal radio with his prison ID engraved on it. It’s almost too perfect because nobody would be that stupid. It must be a CIA-FBI-White House plot. Has to be. There is no way that James Earl Ray‚ the high-school dropout‚ Army throw-away‚ petty thief could stalk Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ kill the most influential civil rights leader of the era and evade an international manhunt for more than two months‚ only to be busted by Scotland Yard
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have to offer. Instead‚ it is through God that a person can become a hero. By being able to connect with exceptional individuals such as Gideon‚ Esther‚ and James‚ one understands how God can use anyone to achieve His sovereign will and‚ as a result‚ be a hero. Although he would eventually become capable of leading his people against a formidable enemy‚ Gideon was not inherently courageous. He‚ in fact‚ started off as a man whose fear had controlled his life and whose trust in
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James Earl Carter Jr. was the 39th President of the United States and was elected in 1977. He was also a governor in Georgia. Carter believed in government having a more active role and was the last Democratic Liberal. He wanted America to be the first country to exercise and display human rights. Carter believed that America could remain a powerful nation without military intervention. He also pursued to improve the relationship between America and the Soviet Union. During his presidency‚ he would
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