Word: gideons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, the only way to make fair sense of American law is to plumb the ramifications of one important case, the strategy so impressively followed by Anthony Lewis in Gideon's Trumpet (1964). Grand surveys usually get nowhere; "law" is almost entirely a case-by-case proposition. As Mayer himself says, "Law is a process, not a thing...
...Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series: Gideon Bachman, film critic and film historian, Rome, Italy, on "The Personal World of Federico Fellini." Emerson Hall...
...King's Montgomery bus boycott-it also keyed Johnson's whole judicial development. If a right applied in one area, he quickly applied it in another-always in spare, lucid opinions based on rock-hard facts. Thus, in 1963, Johnson broadened the Supreme Court's famous Gideon right-to-counsel decision (1961) by ruling that court-appointed lawyers must be paid for their services because the Constitution requires "effective" counsel. Congress soon followed with a law requiring payment in federal courts everywhere in the U.S. Conversely, last year Johnson condemned another kind of legal pay: the fees...
...admitted logic" [Dec. 16] of Gideon v. Wainwright has been carried out in Massachusetts, where representation for those who cannot afford it has been required since 1964 in all criminal cases with a possibility of imprisonment, misdemeanors and felonies alike. The 60 lawyers of the Massachusetts Defenders Committee provide representation in 12,000 cases per year...
Whenever the Supreme Court expands the rights of the accused, as it did in its famous 1963 Gideon decision requiring free lawyers for indigent felony defendants, pessimists predict that prisoners will win new trials based on the new rights...