Unable to pay for a lawyer, a man arrested for breaking and entering was forced to defend himself in court, resulting in a sentence of five years in prison.

Learn about the famous supreme court case that guarantees indigent defendants to be adequately represented in the nation's criminal courts.

Clarence Earl Gideon, innocent and too poor to hire an attorney, was sent to prison for a burglary he did not commit.

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.

Discusses the principle of the right to counsel for all defendants, the case of Gideon v. Wainwright, and the significance of the Supreme Court's decision regarding that principle.

"Examines the Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, including the trial and appeals, the ruling of a defendant's right to counsel, and the movie inspired by the court case"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the people, events, and legal issues involved in the Supreme Court case that established the right of the accused to be represented by a lawyer even if they cannot afford to pay.

In Painting Constitutional Law, scholars of constitutional law analyse Xavier Cortada's series May It Please the Court.

Half a century after Anthony Lewis’s award-winning Gideon’s Trumpet brought us the story of the court case that changed the American justice system, Chasing Gideon is a crucial book that provides essential reckoning of our attempts to ...

In the 1963 groundbreaking Gideon v.