In Gideon v. Wainwright, Clarence Gideon was charged with breaking into a Panama City, Florida, pool hall on June 3, 1961. This case led the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a constitutional right to ...

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Gideon v Wainwright in which the justices unanimously affirmed a constitutional right to a lawyer for criminal ...

On March 18, 1963, the justices decided in Gideon v. Wainwright that defendants in felony cases have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they can’t afford to hire one.

March 18 is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, requiring that people who cannot afford lawyers are provided with a public defender.

This year marks six decades since the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v.Wainwright, a decision that forever altered the landscape of the American system of justice.The promise of Gideon ...

Wainwright. The landmark case, guaranteeing the right to counsel in criminal cases, forever changed America's criminal justice system. In June 1961, Clarence Gideon was arrested for allegedly ...

March 18 is the 60 th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that recognized a person’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel in a criminal case.

Sixty years ago today, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Gideon v.Wainwright. The court held that states must abide by the Sixth Amendment and that those whose liberty is threatened by ...

Clarence Gideon and former Florida assistant attorney general Bruce Jacob reacted to the Supreme Court's decision in [Gideon v. Wainwright]. The decision granted Mr. Gideon a new trial with access ...

Sixty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court's Gideon v.Wainwright decision established one of the most vital components of our justice system by recognizing that people accused of a crime have a Sixth ...

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Gideon v Wainwright in which the justices unanimously affirmed a constitutional right to a lawyer for criminal ...

March 18 is the 60 th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that recognized a person’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel in a criminal case.