Meme from rockahulababy

From rockahulababy:

So Palin can't name any Supreme Court decisions besides Roe v. Wade. The rules: post information about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historical, on your LJ. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN LJ to spread the fun!

Here is mine:

Miranda v. Arizona

This is the Supreme Court decision that mandated police officers to read someone being placed in police custody/held for questioning/arrested their rights before questioning them. The Fifth Ammendment of the Constitution protects us from forced self-incrimination.

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Here's mine:

Gideon vs. Wainwright

In the case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford their own attorneys. Clarence Earl Gideon appealed his conviction for robbery after doing research in the prison library, and sent a handwritten appeal.

And it has the book, Gideon's Trumpet.

Because justice should not be limited to what you can pay for.

DV

Debate

Yes, I got up at 0345 so I could watch the VP debate live.

Neither one really screwed up or scored, IMO.

Not as entertaining as a lot of people were probably hoping for, and probably not much of a game changer.

The people who like Palin are still going to like Palin. The people who don't like her are still going to not like her.

The reservations I have about that ticket can't be fixed by a good debate performance, but I'm also not one of the legions of "undecided".

DV