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Continuing Neglect of Our Constitutional Right to Counsel." In 2013 he was one of four persons presented with "Constitutional Champion" awards by the Constitution Project, in Washington, D.C. He received the 2013 "Champion of Indigent Defense Award" from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Also, in 2013 he received the Delano Stewart Award from the George Edgecomb Bar Association, Tampa, and the "Power 100 Award" from the organization, "On Being a Black Lawyer" of Washington, D.C. These two awards were for efforts in making the legal profession more diverse. In 2014 he received the âWm. Reece Smith, Jr. Public Service Awardâ from Stetson and the âGardner W. Beckett, Jr. Civil Liberties Awardâ from the Pinellas County, Florida chapter of the A.C.L.U. He received the 2018 âLaw Faculty Professionalism Awardâ from The Florida Bar.
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or lacked education or experience, was unfamiliar with court procedures, or if the charges against him were complex, the trial court was required under the Due
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International Organizations in Lucerne and Geneva, Switzerland. In 2010 he was a panelist in American law at the Northwest University of Politics and Law, Xiâan, China; Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China; Dalian Maritime
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Carolina, for basic training, clerk-typist school, and work as a clerk typist and court reporter for special court-martial proceedings. He graduated and was commissioned a second lieutenant, infantry, from
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In 1966, as assistant professor at Emory Law School, he established the Legal
Assistance for Inmates (L.A.I.) The program, providing free legal help to indigent prisoners at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta. While acting as the director and supervisor of the students in that program he was
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Florida Legislature enacted a law creating a statewide public defender system and included was a provision allowing lawyers in private firms to become unpaid Special Assistant Public Defenders. Jacob, who by then was in private practice in Bartow,
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required the appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant at state expense if there was a âspecial circumstanceâ present in the case which made it necessary for counsel to be provided for the defendant to receive a fair trial. For example, if the defendant was indigent and was extremely young,
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Jacob also represented inmates in appellate cases such as Rosa v United States, and in federal trial-level cases such as White v
Blackwell and Lawrence v Blackwell challenging prison rules and practices on constitutional grounds. The Emory program and the National Defender Project entered into an
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who were knowledgeable about federal criminal law were released from confinement to assist in the work of the program. The
National Defense Project, through Deputy Director John Cleary, obtained the release of the two jailhouse lawyers and provided the funding to pay their salaries. They worked
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Harvard Law School Jacob was the co-founder of the Prison Legal Assistance Project (P.L.A.P.), for Massachusetts prison inmates. This project was patterned after the Emory L.A.I. Program. Also, he was a staff attorney, supervising students at the Community Legal
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Gideon had been convicted of breaking the Bay Harbor
Poolroom, located in the small community of Bay Harbor, near Panama City, Florida. His conviction was set aside and the case was sent back to the trial court in Panama City for a new trial. At the second trial, he was represented by appointed
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In 2006 the members of an American Inn of Court in Tampa honored Professor Jacob by naming their Inn the "Bruce R. Jacob Criminal Appellate American Inn of Court." In 2016 the name became "Bruce R. Jacob - Chris W. Altenbernd Criminal Appellate Inn of Court." He was a member of The Constitution
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He was honored by the Stetson faculty when in 2009 Stetson began hiring entry-level Visiting Assistant Professors who are known as "Bruce R. Jacob Fellows." They spend two years at Stetson, developing courses, teaching, and writing in preparation for a career as a law professor. He gave the
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From 1971 to 1978, at The Ohio State University College of Law, he developed clinical programs and taught two of them â the Criminal Defense Clinic and the Criminal Appeals and Post-Conviction Remedies clinic. In these clinics, students represented indigent defendants and inmates under the
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in 1953. During his senior year, he played the violin in the Florida West Coast Symphony. Also, he participated in football, basketball, and track, and in track was the 1953 Florida high school state champion in the half-mile run.
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