Sentence examples for poor criminal from inspiring English sources

New York State's highest court has affirmed the state's constitutional duty to provide effective legal counsel to poor criminal defendants.

A state judge ruled that poor criminal defendants in a northwestern county received adequate legal representation, rejecting a lawsuit brought by the county against the state.

In a 1963 decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, and subsequent cases, the United States Supreme Court ruled that poor criminal defendants are entitled to government-paid representation.

ALBANY — New York's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, on Monday called the state's routine failure to provide lawyers for poor criminal defendants being arraigned in local courts a problem that "can no longer be tolerated," and pledged to remedy the situation within a year.

The major thrust of the Warren Court was toward equality— between the races, between rich and poor criminal defendants, between country and city voters.

But it is the impoverished who are most vulnerable to crime, poor people living in the midst of poor criminals.

But lawsuits against poor criminals are a waste of time, and a wealthy defendant is a rare sight in the city's criminal courts.

With a friend, she did research to find the neighborhood with the most people of the sort Jesus ministered to: prostitutes, the poor, criminals.

I hate Diepsloot!" Crime in South Africa is commonly portrayed as an onslaught against the wealthy, but it is the poor who are most vulnerable: poor people conveniently accessible to poor criminals.

It justified a host of nasty prejudices, including anti-miscengenation laws, restrictions on immigration and enforced sterilization of the poor, criminals and the disabled.

Once intended to deliver major social programs and reforms to the favelas, the primary legacy of pacification was instead widespread police corruption, an increase in violence and homicides (including those committed by police), and the further stigmatization of favela residents as little more than poor criminals.