61.   The program was criticized by civil libertarians, who said it could endanger the due-process rights of criminal defendants.

62.   The other way to avoid it would be for President Clinton to start behaving like a president instead of a criminal defendant.

63.   The state system is notorious for failing to provide competent lawyers for indigent criminal defendants, or providing no lawyers at all.

64.   The Sixth Amendment not only guarantees criminal defendants the right to counsel, but the right to effective counsel.

65.   The thought struck him again this week as he faced an unusual criminal defendant in federal district court in Manhattan.

66.   The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that criminal defendants have no constitutional right to introduce at trial lie detector test results that support their claims of innocence.

67.   There are the lawyers for a host of criminal defendants claiming to be victims of profiling, who continue to accuse the state of a cover-up.

68.   These federal protections include the requirement that criminal defendants on trial for their lives be represented by an attorney experienced in capital cases.

69.   Those warnings of legal doom usually work with the average criminal defendant, but the president of the United States is unlike any other client.

70.   To be competent under Kansas law, criminal defendants must be able to assist in their own defense and understand the nature of court proceedings.