Word: gideon
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What makes defense of the poor "a matter of first importance and endeavor," urged the A.B.A. report, is the Supreme Court's changing stance, a stream of decisions requiring that state criminal procedures be raised to federal standards. Most celebrated: last year's Gideon case, in which the Court ruled that all courts must provide lawyers for all indigents charged with serious crimes...
...Rules. Last week, in a ruling that will cause profound changes in American criminal procedures, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Danny's conviction. In last year's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision, the court held that every defendant in a state or federal criminal trial is entitled to counsel. In Danny's case, the court extended the Gideon principle and ruled that a person is entitled to consult with counsel as soon as an investigation makes him a prime suspect...
...Yale's John H. Ely, 25 (Chief Justice Warren), is a summa Princeton graduate with the further distinction of having collaborated on a landmark Supreme Court case (Gideon v. Waln-wright) before he got out of law school. Ely researched Plaintiff Clarence Gideon's appeal while working for the Washington law firm that handled the case. Second in his class at Yale (magna '63), he has since been working for the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination...
Holding a Thin Line. Gideon has already freed (after a new trial with a lawyer) Clarence Earl Gideon, the Florida prisoner who started it all with his now famous in forma pauperis petition to the Supreme Court. More than 1,000 other Florida convicts have been released, 600 have won new trials, and hundreds of others are polishing up "Gideon Petitions." Spurring them on is Prisoner 62601, Theodore N. Turner, , 39, Florida's most accomplished jailhouse lawyer, who solemnly states that "Our thin line of civilized living and culture is based on due process of law. If due process...
Forger Turner, who used to be Clarence Gideon's neighbor at Florida's Raiford state prison, has been the brains (IQ 140) behind more than 100 would-be Gideonites. A onetime insurance claims adjuster, Turner picks up clients through the prison grapevine, studies their court records, and has often drawn up petitions, hand-printed by a dozen other convicts. Turner's legal skills have already forced public defenders to handle all Gideon Petitions, made court clerks abolish the usual $25 filing fee. At times he writes like a judge: "This breathes of the appellate court...