Right to Counsel and Necessity Cases

Decisions on the fairness and limits of criminal liability: the American right to appointed counsel in Gideon and the English lifeboat case of Dudley and Stephens that refused necessity as a defence to murder. A case belongs here when its cited article describes it as a decision on counsel or on a general defence to crime. It excludes police power cases. The group joins two decisions that define the limits of liability and fairness at trial and that are usually taught together in a first course on criminal law.