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Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own.
Before Gideon v. Wainwright, there was a history of cases related to the right of counsel that were involved in criminal procedure in the United States. [3] [14] During the time of the case, there was a political shift toward how much the federal government could control in regard to federal law, which is shown by the Warren Court. [8]
Gideon's Trumpet is a 1964 book by Anthony Lewis describing the story behind the 1963 landmark court case Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that criminal defendants have the right to an attorney even if they cannot afford one.
Gideon chose Turner to be his lawyer for his second trial. The retrial took place on August 5, 1963, five months after the Supreme Court ruling. By destroying the credibility of the prosecution's key witness through exposing contradictions with other eyewitnesses and the witness's self-admittedly false statements (such as about his prior ...
Gideon v. Wainwright: Criminal procedure: 372 U.S. 335 (1963) right to counsel Douglas v. California: 372 U.S. 353 (1963) Fourteenth Amendment; right of poor defendants to criminal court appeals Gray v. Sanders: 372 U.S. 368 (1963) state county districts must conform to "one person, one vote" Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation ...
Louie Lee Wainwright (September 11, 1923 – December 23, 2021) was an American corrections administrator who served as Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections from 1962 to 1987. [1] He is known for having been the named respondent in two U.S. Supreme Court cases: Gideon v. Wainwright in which indigents are guaranteed an attorney ...
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Clarence Earl Gideon (August 30, 1910 – January 18, 1972) was an impoverished American drifter accused in a Florida state court of felony breaking and entering. While in prison, he appealed his case to the U.S. Supreme Court , resulting in the landmark 1963 decision Gideon v.