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Gideon v. Wainwright

11/1/2011

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SHARED FROM THE NYCBA's newsletter:

I thought this posting from Milton Hirsch' Constitutional Calendar would be enjoyed by all:

"In October of 1962, the United States Supreme Court appointed one of Washington’s preeminent lawyers, Abe Fortas, to represent an indigent defendant whose petition for certiorari to the Court had been granted. On Oct. 29, Fortas wrote a letter to his new client, asking for “a detailed biographical description.” Shortly thereafter he received a 22-page reply, written in pencil on lined prison-issue paper. It concluded with these words:

"'I have no illusions about law and courts or the people who are involved in them. I have read the complete history of law ever since the Romans first started writing them down and before the laws of religions. I believe that each era finds an improvement in law, each year brings something new for the benefit of mankind. Maybe this will be one of those small steps forward. In the past thirty-five years I have seen great advancement in courts in penal servitude. Thank your for reading all of this. Please try to believe that all I want now from life is the chance for the love of my children, the only real love I have ever had.

Sincerely yours, 
Clarence Earl Gideon"




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    • Philosophy
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  • Client's Rights
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    • New York Dead Man's Statute - CPLR 4519
    • EPTL 3-3.5 Conditions Qualifying Dispositions - Conditions against contest
    • EPTL 4-1.1 INTESTATE SUCCESSION
    • EPTL 5-1.1 A - Right of Election By Surviving Spouse
    • EPTL 5-1.2 - Disqualification as surviving spouse
    • EPTL § 5-3.1 Exemption for benefit of family
    • EPTL 7-1.12 Supplemental Needs Trusts
    • EPTL § 10-6.6 Exercise of a Power of Appointment
    • MHL 81.36 Discharge or Modification of Powers of Guardian
    • NY General Obligations Law 5-1513 Power of Attorney statutory short form
    • NY Mental Health & Hygiene Law 81.02 Power to appoint a Guardian
    • SCPA § 207. Lifetime trusts; jurisdiction and venue
    • SCPA 302 - Pleadings
    • SCPA 406 Reference to Hear and Report
    • SCPA 306 Citation
    • SCPA 407 Assignment of Counsel For Indigent Persons
    • SCPA 503 Proceedings Upon Jury Trial
    • SCPA 507 Testimony of Witnesses
    • SCPA 707 Eligibility to Receive Letters
    • SCPA 711 Suspension, modification or revocation of letters or removal for disqualification or misconduct
    • SCPA 719 In what cases letters may be suspended, modified or revoked, or a lifetime trustee removed or his powers suspended or modified, without process
    • SCPA 1301 Definition of a small estate
    • SCPA 1403- Persons to Be Served - Content of Process
    • SCPA § 1404 - Witnesses to be Examined; proof required
    • SCPA § 1501 Application Of Act To Trust
    • SCPA § 1502 Appointment Of Trustee
    • SCPA § 1505 Proceedings When Testamentary Trustee Is Also Executor or Administrator
    • SCPA 1602 - Ancillary Probate Based on Domicilary Probate
    • SCPA 1604 - Ancillary letters on foreign will
    • SCPA 1607 Ancillary Letters of Administration
    • SCPA 1609 - Petition for Ancillary Letters
    • SCPA 1811 Payment of Debts and Funeral Expenses
    • SCPA 1802 Effect of failure to present claim
    • SCPA 2003 Opening Safe Deposit Box
    • SCPA 2102 Proceedings For Relief Against A Fiduciary
    • SCPA 2204 Judicial settlement where recovery has been had in negligence action
    • SCPA 2205 Compulsory account and related relief on a court's own initiative or on petition who may petition
    • SCPA 2206 Compulsory Account and Related Relief; Proceedings Thereupon
    • SCPA 2208 Voluntary Account; who may petition
    • SCPA 2210 Voluntary Account - Process
    • SCPA 2225 - Kinship Proceedings
    • SCPA 2307 Commissions of Fiduciaries Other Than Trustees
    • Estate Tax Return - New York Tax Law 941
    • Tax Law 971-a
    • Tax Law 972
    • 26 USC § 2042
    • Unified Credit Against Estate Tax 26 USC 2010
    • 26 CFR 1.401(a)(9)-3 - Death before required beginning date
    • 26 CFR 1.401(a)(9)-4 - Determination of the designated beneficiary
    • Petition For Review of a Deficiency - Tax law 998
    • Abatement
    • Accounting Proceedings
    • Ademption
    • Administrator
    • Administration
    • Anticontest clause
    • Ancillary Proceedings
    • Article 17a Guardianship
    • Article 81 Guardianship
    • Asset
    • Attorney-in-fact
    • Beneficiaries
    • Bequest
    • Bond
    • Bypass Trust
    • Capacity
    • Citation
    • Codicil
    • Contest
    • Contingent Beneficiary
    • Dead Man's Statute
    • Debts of a Decedent
    • Decedent
    • Devise
    • Disinherit a Beneficiary
    • Disinheritance Clause
    • Distributee
    • Elective Share
    • Estate
    • Estate Litigation
    • Executor
    • Family Exemption
    • Fiduciary
    • Final income tax return
    • Gift
    • Grantor
    • Guardian
    • Heir
    • Insolvent Estates
    • Intestate
    • In terrorem clause
    • Joint Tenancy With Right of Survivorship
    • Kinship Hearing
    • Legacy
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    • Legatee
    • Movant
    • Objections
    • Order to show cause
    • Person
    • Personal representative
    • Per Stirpes
    • Post-Deceased Distributee
    • Pre-Deceased Distributee
    • Priority of Paying Claims Against An Estate
    • Probate
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    • Residuary Estate
    • Small Estates And NY Surrogate's Court
    • Tenants in common
    • Termination of Decedent Lease
    • Testamentary Trust
    • Testator - Testatrix
    • Unclaimed Assets
    • What is a Will
    • Witness >
      • NAACP v New York
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