Law School for Everyone
Season 1
Ep 19. Due Process and the Right to Counsel
- TV-PG
- September 22, 2017
- 32 min
Powell v. Alabama, better known as the Scottsboro case, is one of the most important in the history of American criminal procedure law. Where did the Supreme Court find the legal authority to force states to provide all criminal defendants, regardless of race or economic station, with fundamental rights?