Defending Gideon

• Movies
• 2013-03-18
• EN
• Released
• 0h 30m
• Documentary

• 0.0
• 0

Production

New Media Advocacy Project, Racing Horse Productions

Storyline

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.