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Let Them Be Lawyers: The Supreme Court on the dignity of the mentally ill.
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| Last Edited | CBlock941 Jul 30, 2008 09:39am |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| News Date | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Indiana v. Edwards, decided at the end of the Supreme Court term, hasn't gotten a lot of press. Ostensibly, it's about a technical matter of criminal procedure—the Sixth Amendment right to represent yourself in a criminal trial. But the case deserves a close look because at root it's about the nature of human dignity, a term that appears nowhere in the Constitution yet permeates its meaning. Plus, this June sleeper features a lesson by Justice Antonin Scalia to liberals on the court about what civil liberties should mean. |
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