Publication Date
3-1991
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Near the end of the Criminal Procedure course that I teach, I assigned the case of Cuyler v. Sullivan, a treacherously complex decision grounded in the sixth amendment right to conflict-free counsel in criminal trials. While the case demonstrates the intricacies of federal habeas corpus review of state criminal convictions, I do not find it absorbing for that reason. I assign it because the respondent, John Sullivan, having successfully urged his claim before the United States Supreme Court, died in the jail in which he had spent most of the previous twenty years of his life.
Recommended Citation
Webster, Laura Gardner
(1991)
"Telling Stories: The Spoken Narrative Tradition in Criminal Defense Discourse,"
Mercer Law Review: Vol. 42:
No.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu/jour_mlr/vol42/iss2/1