We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.