Bruce v. State

According to Bernard Schwartz in The American Heritage History of the Law in America at 33 (1974), the late John Adams, in speaking of his oft-criticized, but highly successful defense of the British troops charged with the killings in the Boston Massacre, opined: “I have no hesitation that Council [sic] ought to be the very last thing that an accused person ... [should lack] in a free society.” Indeed, the right to counsel was thought of so strongly by this country’s founding fathers that they provided in the Sixth Amendment, a part of “that classic inventory of human rights, the Bill of…