The following case was the authority used for the preparation of the Supplemental Brief for prisoner Jerry Wayne Morgan, who was in prison without any ability to prepare a legal brief in the short time allowed 30 days, with an extension of 30 days granted by the Court.  The Supplemental Brief was prepared for the Third Appellate Court, by laymen under the authority of Johnson v. Avery , 393 U.S. 483 (1969), which states as follows:

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, concurring.

        "We think of claims as grist for the mill of the lawyers. But it is becoming abundantly clear that more and more of the effort in ferreting out the basis of claims and the agencies responsible for them and in preparing the almost endless paperwork for their prosecution is work for laymen. There are not enough lawyers to manage or supervise all of these affairs; and much of the basic work done requires no special legal talent. Yet there is a closed-shop philosophy in the legal profession that cuts down drastically active roles for laymen. It was expressed by a New York court in denying an application from the Neighborhood Legal Services for permission to offer a broad legal-aid type of service to indigents:

         . . .That traditional, closed-shop attitude is utterly out of place in the modern world where claims pile high and much of the work of tracing and pursuing them requires the patience and wisdom of a layman rather than the legal skills of a member of the bar. The plight of a man in prison may in these respects be even more acute than the plight of a person on the outside. He may need collateral proceedings to test the legality of his detention or relief against management [393 U.S. 483, 493] of the parole system or against defective detainers lodged against him which create burdens in the nature of his incarcerated status. He may have grievances of a civil nature against those outside the prison. . ."

        The following are the Supplemental Brief, and the Third Appellate Opinion, dated July 16, 2001; and Opinion on Rehearing dated August 30, 2002: