Law Practice
Nov. 24, 2012
When bad cases make good law
Bad cases make good law. Gideon and Miranda and Brady were not saints. But we are each freer because the courts protected their rights. By Thomas M. Hall
While most people can make decisions based on advertising slogans or gut feelings, attorneys and courts are bound by rules and admissible evidence. Complex issues that can be made to sound simple in political campaigns always involve much greater complexity when viewed through the eyes of judges making decisions after exposure to a fuller exposition of the facts and law in individual cases.
While the nation was awash in sound bites abo...
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