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Supreme Court backs indigent right to counsel at preliminary hearings
The Supreme Court split 5 to 3 to require states provide lawyers for poor defendants at preliminary hearings in two Alabama cases. The ruling also upholds laws allowing convictions by juries fewer than 12 and requiring alibi witness names, with 7 to 1 and 6 to 2 votes on those issues respectively.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Alabama
William J. Brennan Jr
Johnny Williams
Florida
Williams
Byron R. White
Thurgood Marshall
Hugo L. Black
William C. Douglas