(Download) "Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney" by Supreme Court of Pennsylvania " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
- Author : Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 14, 1967
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 75 KB
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The seminal decision of Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45, 53 S. Ct. 55 (1932), in which a trial judges appointment of the entire county bar to defend the Scottboro boys was found to constitute a denial of the "effective assistance of counsel," has produced what is today an axiomatic judicial assumption that any right to representation includes the right to "effective" or "adequate" representation. But a statement of principle rarely solves concrete cases; the difficult questions, requiring that content be given to this right, remain.