Bolick v. State

Clark, Judge.

"Jailhouse lawyer” may be a pejorative term applied by some with derision but not by judges who know these penitentiary paracletes present frequently imaginative and innovative ideas. Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335 (83 SC 792, 9 LE2d 799, 93 ALR2d 733), was the result of a prisoner’s product. Incarceration may provide the needed hours of idleness for contemplation which would be confirmation of the views expressed by famed New York City Attorney Morris Ernst who wrote in 58 Am. Bar Assn. Journal 165 (Feb. 1972) that "It is now apparent from vast studies that man’s mind leaps…