Defending Gideon

Defending Gideon (2013)

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Release:3/18/2013
Genres:Documentary
Original language:English
Spoken languages:English
Countries:United States of America

Overview:

Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking into a pool hall. He could not afford a lawyer to defend him in court, and after a hasty trial, he was convicted. Had Gideon accepted his fate, he'd have been imprisoned for five years. But Gideon did challenge his conviction -all the way to the Supreme Court. The result was the landmark case Gideon v. Wainwright, which guarantees poor defendants the right to counsel in criminal cases.… Expand

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