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...lively account of Clarence Earl Gideon, the jailhouse lawyer who changed the law of the land, is used to animate a complex subject-the changing philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court in the past quarter-century...
...just seven days after he became President of the U.S. because of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson issued Executive Order No. 11,130, setting up a blue-ribbon commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate each and every aspect of the national tragedy...
GIDEON'S TRUMPET, by Anthony Lewis. A lively account of Clarence Earl Gideon, the jailhouse lawyer who changed the Jaw of the land, is used to animate a complex subject-the changing philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court in the last quarter century...
Another LP album, called Folk Songs for Conservatives, was purportedly recorded at a "hatenanny" where groups like the Four Bigots and Noel X and His Unbleached Muslims sang such traditional folk material as Hang Earl Warren to a Sour Apple Tree...
...Court & the Law. From the start, the legal community greeted the book with respect for its deft erudition. Reviewers spotted it as a fascinating account of the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, the obscure Florida convict whose now famous penciled petition to the Supreme Court eventually brought the precedent-shattering decision ruling that any man who cannot pay a lawyer is entitled to court-appointed counsel when on trial, even in state courts, for anything more than a petty offense. This decision brought Gideon a new trial (and his acquittal) and opened the way for new trials for a myriad...