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Gideon v. Wainwright | Oyez. Gideon v. Wainwright. Media. Oral Argument - January 15, 1963 (Part 1) Oral Argument - January 15, 1963 (Part 2) Opinions. Syllabus. View Case. Petitioner. Clarence Earl Gideon. Respondent. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections. Location. Bay County Circuit Court. Docket no. 155. Decided by.
Wainwright, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 18, 1963, ruled (9–0) that states are required to provide legal counsel to indigent defendants charged with a felony. The case centred on Clarence Earl Gideon, who had been charged with a felony for allegedly burglarizing a pool hall in Panama City, Florida, in June 1961.
Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own.
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- Black, joined by Warren, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, White, Goldberg
Gideon v. Wainwright , The Oyez Project. Summary. At the time the Constitution was adopted, British courts denied lawyers to individuals charged with treason or felonies. People accused of criminal misdemeanors, however, were provided lawyers. The American colonies (and, later, the states) rejected this practice.
Sep 1, 2010 · One year after Mapp, the Supreme Court handed down yet another landmark ruling in the case of Gideon v. Wainwright , holding that the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial guaranteed all defendants facing imprisonment a right to an attorney, not just those in death penalty cases.
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Summary. Gideon v Wainwright (1963), a landmark Supreme Court case that under the Sixth Amendment requires states to provide counsel in criminal cases to any defendants unable to afford their own attorney. In 1961, Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking and entering in a Florida poolroom and once in trial, asked the court to appoint him ...
