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

    Mar 13, 2013 · Exactly 50 years ago, on March 18, 1963, the United States Supreme Court unanimously announced in Gideon v. Wainwright that the Sixth Amendment guarantees to every criminal defendant in a felony...

  2. deathpenaltyinfo.org › stories › the-silencing-ofThe Silencing of Gideon's Trumpet | Death Penalty Information ...

    New York Times Magazine. by ANTHONY LEWIS. Forty-one years ago, a poor, isolated prisoner in Florida, the least influential of Americans, wrote a letter to the Supreme Court — a letter in pencil, on lined prison paper — claiming that he had been wrongly denied the right to a lawyer when he was convicted. The Supreme Court agreed to hear his ...

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Gideon&Gideon's Trumpet (film) - Wikipedia

    Release. April 30, 1980. ( 1980-04-30) Gideon's Trumpet is a 1980 American made-for-television historical drama film based on the biographical book of the same name written by Anthony Lewis. [1] The film depicts the historical events before and during the 1963 United States Supreme Court case of Gideon v.

    • Robert Collins
    • David W. Rintels
    • Historical Drama

  5. www.goodreads.com › book › showGideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis | Goodreads

    Jul 26, 2015 · Anthony Lewis. 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 simple: he ...

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  6. www.amazon.com › Gideons-Trumpet-Prisoner-SupremeGideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case ...

    Apr 23, 1989 · By 1962, when Gideon filed his appeal, the makeup of the court had changed significantly (more liberal/more activist) and decided to reexamine the merit’s of the Court’s prior decision. Having accepted Gideon’s appeal, the Court asked one of the top attorneys in the nation (future Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas) to represent Gideon.

    • (401)
    • Anthony Lewis
    • $10.89
    • Vintage

  7. www.garretwilson.com › books › reviewsReview: Gideon's Trumpet - Garret Wilson

    Gideon's Trumpet is longer than it had to be, but that doesn't impede the reading and only helps turn a single case into a much larger educational experience. Lewis explains how the Supreme Court works, explores different theories of Fourteenth Amendment incorporation of rights that are still relevant to today's criminal procedure, and ...

  8. books.google.com › books › aboutGideon's Trumpet - Google Books

    Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed the Law of the United States: Author: Anthony Lewis: Edition: reprint: Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989: ISBN: 0679723129, 9780679723127: Length: 288 pages: Subjects