According to the Supreme Court in Powell v. Alabama, the famous "Scottsboro Case" of 1932 involving several black youths accused of raping two white girls on a train,:
A) the entire Bill of Rights applies to state criminal procedure.
B) the due process clause requires states to follow all of the federal government's rules of criminal procedure.
C) all criminal defendants are entitled to a lawyer in every criminal case free of charge.
D) in the severe circumstances of this case-young, ignorant, illiterate defendants facing the death penalty in a hostile environment far from their family and friends-the state was required under the federal Constitution to provide counsel for the defendants.
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Q6: The term "parallel rights" refers to:
A)rights guaranteed
Q12: The sources of American criminal procedure law
Q13: With respect to the Fourteenth Amendment due
Q14: A decision of the U.S. Supreme Court
Q15: In Palko v. Connecticut (1937), the Supreme
Q16: Criminal procedure refers to the:
I. methods the
Q18: The fundamental fairness doctrine of due process
Q20: The criminal procedure provision(s) in the body
Q22: Selective incorporation means:
A)the state legislatures can select
Q27: The United States Supreme Court has no
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