Saturday marks the 60th 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 ...

Sixty years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous landmark ruling intended to create a more equitable criminal justice system. In California, we are still waiting for the change ...

Thursday marks the anniversary of the Gideon v. Wainwright case being decided. The landmark Supreme Court case originates in Bay County. Clarence Gideon was accused of breaking and entering, and ...

“How can you defend those people?” That is the question criminal defense attorneys face at family functions, social gatherings and watering holes. Like many of my colleagues, I have a standard answer: ...

This piece was published in coordination with Zealous, an organization working to amplify the perspective of public defenders. Learn more about the history of public defense at This Is Defense. But ...

State capitals from Honolulu to Augusta, Maine, heard Gideon’s trumpet when the U.S. Supreme Court sounded it in 1963. But Harrisburg has remained deaf for 60 years to the clarion call to provide ...

All this week the 19 th Judicial Circuit Public Defender Office is celebrating Gideon Week to mark the 60 th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v Wainwright that ruled states ...

The landmark 1963 Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright established the right to legal counsel for defendants who cannot afford an attorney. The popular narrative credits Clarence Earl Gideon, a man ...

He provided the research and drafts that helped bring about the Supreme Court’s landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision in 1963. By Clay Risen Abe Krash, who as a junior partner at the law firm Arnold, ...

March 18 is the anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, a case from 1963 in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that every person accused of a crime in America must be provided with legal ...

Brown v. Board of Education dismantled legal segregation, reshaping both domestic policy and Cold War diplomacy. Decisions like Miranda v. Arizona and Gideon v. Wainwright expanded protections for ...