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...recall how Clarence Earl Gideon (Gideon v. Wainwright) was convicted on circumstantial evidence of taking money from the cigarette machine and juke box in a poolroom. For this the judge imposed the maximum sentence of five years. Compare this with the monstrous swindle of Anthony De Angelis [TIME, June 4]. How can the law be so prejudiced, so unbalanced, that he could be put on probation...
...staple of law-school graduation oratory. And as such, they were all too often brushed aside. But U.S. lawyers can no longer ignore them, for the constitutional right to counsel is no longer limited to accused Americans who have the necessary cash. In its great decision of 1963, Gideon v. Wainwright, a no-fee triumph by Washington Lawyer Abe Fortas, the Supreme Court ordered all state courts to provide lawyers for indigent defendants in all felony cases-and Gideon may apply to misdemeanor cases as well. As the court simultane ously expands constitutional rights in other areas, the nation...
...Kyle Hunt. 209 pages. Macmillan. $3.95. British Crimewriter John Creasey is a one-man Book-of-the-Month Club. Since 1931, under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms of wonderful ordinariness,* he has managed to write nearly 500 books. To his long list of heroes-Gideon of the Yard, The Toff, Handsome West-Creasey here adds his first new one in ten years. He is Dr. Emmanuel ("Manny") Cellini, psychiatrist first, detective second, who in this adventure is rung in to help not the bobbies but the criminal's neurotic parents. For them and for the reader, Cellini...
...Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) overruled Betts and fully extended the right to counsel in all felony trials. A rare winner, Florida Indigent Clarence Gideon was later retried and found innocent of attempted burglary...
Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination (Malloy v. Hogan in 1964) and the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel (Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963). To be sure, the court said flatly in 1904: "The Sixth Amendment does not apply to proceedings in state criminal courts." But in the light of Gideon, Malloy and other "absorption" cases, ruled Black, statements "generally declaring that the Sixth Amendment does not apply to states can no longer be regarded as law." After reversing Pointer's conviction on these grounds, the court emphasized its new doctrine by doing exactly the same...