Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law until himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the ends justifies the means – to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal – would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this Court should resolutely set its face.Justice Brandeis, dissenting
Olmstead v. United States
277 U.S. 438, 485 (1927)

Seminar Presentation in Cleveland -- Gideon v. Wainwright: A Retrospective and a Promise Unfulfilled

The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's Criminal Law Section is presenting a seminar which will examine the Supreme Court's 1963 opinion of Gideon v. Wainwright and the impact the Court's holding has had on our justice system. The program will be held on June 13, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. (Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.) at CMBA Offices, 1301 East Ninth Street, 2nd Level Galleria, Cleveland, Ohio. (3.0 CLE Hours) For more information please see our calendar under Training/Events --- Local Seminars & Events.

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Seminar Presentation in Cleveland -- Gideon v. Wainwright: A Retrospective and a Promise Unfulfilled