Gideon’s Trumpet is Clarence Earl Gideon’s fight for legal justice. Accused of a crime, Gideon, penniless and denied an attorney, takes his case to the Supreme Court. His landmark battle establishes ...
State capitals from Honolulu to Augusta, Maine, heard Gideon’s trumpet when the U.S. Supreme Court sounded it in 1963. But Harrisburg has remained deaf for 60 years to the clarion call to provide ...
A seminal American legal case has come to be known by the name of the book and made-for-TV movie that popularized it as “Gideon’s Trumpet.” The first Gideon, he of biblical fame, was a military leader ...
This was originally posted on The Huffington Post. Fifty years ago, 52-year old drifter Clarence Earl Gideon was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced without a lawyer to five years imprisonment for ...
The story of Gideon’s vindication was beautifully told by the prize-winning author, and New York Times columnist, Anthony Lewis, in “Gideon’s Trumpet,” an instant classic used in classrooms across the ...
The history of America is often lost in the presumed importance of the present. Monday is the 50th anniversary of an event that changed the course of our American legal system. On June 3, 1961, a ...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s March 18, 1963, ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright requiring state-funded legal representation to criminal defendants who cannot afford it has amounted to a massive unfunded ...
State capitals from Honolulu to Augusta, Maine, heard Gideon’s trumpet when the U.S. Supreme Court sounded it in 1963. But Harrisburg has remained deaf for 60 years to the clarion call to provide ...
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