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1. www.britannica.com › event › Gideon-v-WainwrightGideon v. Wainwright | Summary, Result, Significance, & Facts

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   May 20, 2014 · On January 15, 1963, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gideon v. Wainwright. Abe Fortas, a Washington, D.C., attorney and future Supreme Court justice, represented Gideon for free before the high court. He eschewed the safer argument that Gideon

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Abe_FortasAbe Fortas - Wikipedia

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   Fortas also represented Clarence Earl Gideon before the U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark case involving the right to counsel. Nominated by Johnson to the Supreme Court in 1965, Fortas was confirmed by the Senate, and maintained a close working relationship with the president.

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   When was Abe Fortas appointed to the Supreme Court?

   • Johnson appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1965, two years after the Gideon decision. On June 25, 1962, the Supreme Court appointed Abe Fortas to represent Clarence Gideon in the case then known as Gideon v Cochran. 5 I was the attorney for the state of Florida in the case.

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   Who was Abe Fortas?

   • Abe Fortas was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation he served as a faculty member at Yale. He then went to work for the government during the New Deal. In 1946 he was a founding partner of Arnold, Fortas & Porter. It became a very prominent Washington, D.C., law firm. The firm today is known as Arnold & Porter.

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   What was Gideon's role in the Supreme Court?

   • In Gideon, my job was to try to provide the Court with what it needed, in the way of information and argument, to enable it to make the best decision for our legal system. I was not just a pure advocate trying to win a case. The Champion: What was the atmosphere like that day at the Supreme Court?

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   What did Gideon do while in prison?

   • While he was in prison, Gideon educated himself about the law and became convinced that the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause incorporated the Sixth Amendment right to counsel to the states. He appealed to the Florida Supreme Court, which upheld his conviction. Finally, he mailed a handwritten letter to the US Supreme Court.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Gideon_vGideon v. Wainwright - Wikipedia

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   The Supreme Court assigned Gideon a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney, future Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas of the law firm Arnold, Fortas & Porter. Fortas was assisted by longtime Arnold, Fortas & Porter partner Abe Krash and future famed legal scholar John Hart Ely , then a third-year student at Yale Law School . [5]

5. www.nacdl.org › June2012-RememberingGideonsLawyersNACDL - Remembering Gideon’s Lawyers

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   On June 25, 1962, the Supreme Court appointed Abe Fortas to represent Clarence Gideon in the case then known as Gideon v Cochran. 5 I was the attorney for the state of Florida in the case. Although Abe Fortas and I had corresponded after he was appointed to the Gideon case, I did not meet or see him until the oral argument, which took place on ...

6. www.khanacademy.org › a › gideon-v-wainwrightGideon v. Wainwright (1963) (article) | Khan Academy

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   The Court took up his case in 1963 and appointed Abe Fortas, a renowned lawyer and future Supreme Court justice, to defend Gideon. The Constitutional question at stake. Did the Sixth Amendment’s right to counsel apply to the states? Decision. Yes.

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8. www.theatlantic.com › national › archiveHow Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After 'Gideon'

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   Mar 13, 2013 · During oral argument in Gideon, Abe Fortas had scolded the justices for their "failure to remember what happens downstairs" in criminal cases, an allusion to the rough-and-tumble world of...

9. www.c-span.org › classroom › documentLandmark Supreme Court Case: Gideon V Wainwright (1963) | C ...

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   Mar 28, 2018 · Description. Gideon v. Wainwright is responsible for changing the criminal justice system by granting criminal defendants the right to an attorney, even if they can't afford one on their own.