25 The Court first used the phrase critical stage in connection with the right to counsel in Parkerv. Illinois, 333 U.S. 571, 575 (1948), and first specified that counsel must be provided to a defendant ata critical stage of a criminal prosecution in Hamilton v. Alabama, 368 U.S. 52, 54-55 (1961).
01 December 1978. The largest known land gastropod is the African giant snail Achatina achatina, the largest recorded specimen of which measured 39.3 cm (15.5 in) from snout to tail when fully extended, with a shell length of 27.3 cm (10.75 in) in December 1978. It weighed exactly 900 g (2 lb).
The most common slugs in the Midwest is Deroceras reticulatum, the grey garden slug (Shetlar, 2000). Slugs are often described as a âsnail without a shellâ. Like snails, they have a soft, unsegmented body 2.5 â 20 cm long, depending on species. It is covered with a layer of protective mucus that helps them to move about. Because of this mucus layer, slugs require conditions and thus seek out dark, cool areas, emerging from their hiding places evening or at night. A slugâs body consists of a usually in the head, neck, mantle, tail, and foot.