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    Gideon's Trumpet

    1980 · Docudrama · 1h 45m

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  1. Gideon's Trumpet TV-PG 1980 1 hr. 45 min. Drama List Reviews 56% 250+ Ratings Audience Score In 1961, Clarence Earl Gideon (Henry Fonda) is arrested on charges of petty theft.

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  2. 2,881 ratings260 reviews. Gideon's Trumpet is the story of this extraordinary case, from the night of June 3, 1961, when the Bay Harbor Poolroom was robbed, to the moment that Clarence Earl Gideon walked out of the Panama City, Florida, Courthouse a free man, on August 5, 1963. Gideon's plea to the United States Supreme Court was deceptively ...

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  3. "Gideon's Trumpet" can stand up proudly alongside all the other "Hall of Fame" episodes of the past as one of the finest made-for TV films ever made. It tells the true story of Clarence Earl Gideon, an ex-convict who, in the early 1960's, was accused of breaking into and robbing a convenience store in Florida.

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  5. Apr 23, 1989 · This item: Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed the Law of the United States $14.91 $ 14 . 91 Get it as soon as Saturday, Apr 20

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  6. 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. In 1965, the book won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for ...

  7. About Gideon’s Trumpet. The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man’s fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon’s fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index.

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