The 1963 Supreme Court decision holding that anyone accused…

The 1963 Supreme Court decision holding that anyone accused of a felony where imprisonment may be imposed has a right to a lawyer was the _____________________ decision.  The decision requires the government to provide a lawyer to anyone so accused who is too poor to afford one.

A former student of mine who said Gregory Lee Johnson (the m…

A former student of mine who said Gregory Lee Johnson (the man who burned an American flag in protest in Dallas, Texas outside the National Republican convention) looked like an idiot also believed that people who burn the flag ought to be beheaded.However, in the the famous Supreme Court case Texas vs. Johnson the Court struck down a state law which prohibited flag burning as being in violation of the 1st amendment right to free speech

Despite recommendations by researchers to reform the judicia…

Despite recommendations by researchers to reform the judicial system in Texas and small changes that have been made, in the absence of public support for it, there is unlikely to be any major changes in the Texas court system due to many players having a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.