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Marcia Coyle reports, "Right to counsel probed by justices," in today's National Law Journal.  Rothgery v. Gillespie County is being argued in the Supreme Court right now.  The transcript should be available later today, here.The rights of one man who wanted a lawyer and didn't get one, and of another man who didn't want a lawyer but was forced to take one, converge in the U.S. Supreme Court this month in two cases probing the scope of the right to counsel. Walter Rothgery of Texas and Ahmad Edwards of Indiana have little in common today except an abiding belief that their Sixth Amendment rights were violated when they were at critical points in the criminal justice system. Rothgery is a free man today after belatedly, in his view, getting an appointed lawyer who then easily showed he was not guilty of the charges lodged against him...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).