Word: gideons
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...that case. His successor, Justice Fortas, made eloquently clear during the arguments that he views the court's "vexatious, tormented" decision no differently than he did when he was on the other side of the bench winning the right to counsel for Florida Indigent Clarence Gideon. Apparently, much like Goldberg, he sees the cases in terms of the Magna Carta-in terms of human liberty rather than "just convicting people." While that seemed to leave the Justices split about as before, court watchers also noted that Justice William J. Brennan remained conspicuously silent, often the sign of a "swing...
...doesn't quite escape the trap of a slow beginning, but after the three girls perform their fable play within a play, the rest is pure velvet. Bro Uttal plays the part of Gideon, sophisticated man of the world, just returned from Oxford to talk with his former pedagogue. It seems to be one of those who-am-I jobs, despite the promising dialogue, until the scholar provides him with entertainment, a fantasy play in which three girls (Libby Frank, Mary Moss, and Jane Bullock) play the parts of a king, queen, and princess on an island of three inhabitants...
Some lawyers predict that Gideon will eventually be extended to juvenile courts which, being noncriminal courts, do not yet guarantee even affluent delinquents the Sixth Amendment right to counsel "in all criminal prosecutions." As a start, the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges plans to provide lawyers for indigent delinquents in Chicago, Newark, Cleveland and parts of North Carolina...
Pride & Problems. Widely praised as it is, though, Gideon has inevitably raised problems. It pointed the way for Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), which recognize an accused's right to see his lawyer during police interrogation and started the current U.S. confession controversy, and it has not been easy to apply in such judicial crises as last summer's Watts riot, which swamped Los Angeles courts with more than 4,000 indigent Negro defendants. The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund charges that the arrested Negroes got almost no legal aid. But the California Supreme Court has refused to hear...
...prouder of Gideon's impact than Clarence Gideon himself, who was later retried with counsel-and acquitted. Now 55, Gideon is a gaunt gas station attendant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with an unbounded faith in lawyers. "I've seen ignorant white people and Negroes accused of petty larceny," he says, "and if they had a lawyer they'd get six months, but without one they'd get 15 years. I tell you the prisons are full of lifers who wouldn't have got near that much if a lawyer had handled them. I didn...