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assistance of counsel
assistance of counsel :the help of a lawyer which a defendant in a criminal prosecution is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution see also ineffective assistance of counsel Powell v. Alabama in the Important Cases section NOTE: The Supreme Court held in Powell v. Alabama that the Sixth Amendment requires the state to provide a lawyer to a defendant too poor to hire one. ...
Geneva arbitration
Geneva arbitration, an arbitration held at Geneva to determine the extent of the liability of the British Government for having allowed the Alabama, a man-of-war built in the Mersey for the Confederate States, to put to sea, where she preyed on the commerce of the United States. The British Government admitted liability, and the only question was as to the amount of the damage which were ultimately fixed by the arbitrators at 3,229,166l. The five arbitrators were nominated by Great Britain, the United States, Italy, Switzerland, and Brazil. The British arbitrator was Sir Alexander Cockburn, LCJ, and the counsel who appeared for the British Government were Sir Roundell Palmer and Mr. Arthur Cohen. The arbitrators met on 17th December, 1871, and made their award on 15th September, 1872. See Memorials of the Earl of Selborne, vol. ii, ch. 55....
Muskogees
A powerful tribe of North American Indians that formerly occupied the region of Georgia Florida and Alabama They constituted a large part of the Creek confederacy...
Memorial Day
A day originally May 30 appointed for commemorating by decorating their graves with flowers by patriotic exercises etc the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War 1861 65 in the United States Also called Decoration Day It is a legal holiday in most of the States In the Southern States the Confederate Memorial Day is May 30 in Virginia April 26 in Alabama Florida Georgia and Mississippi May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina the second Friday in May in Tennessee June 3 in Louisiana...
heartleaf
wild ginger Asarum shuttleworthii having persistent heart shaped pungent leaves growing from Western Virginia to Alabama...
Creeks
A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians including the Muskogees Seminoles Uchees and other subordinate tribes They formerly inhabited Georgia Florida and Alabama...
Cotton State
Alabama a nickname...
Chickasaws
A tribe of North American Indians Southern Appalachian allied to the Choctaws They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi but now live in the Indian Territory...
Birmingham
a city in Alabama...
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