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...DIED. W. FRED TURNER, 81, attorney who successfully defended Clarence Earl Gideon, a Florida inmate whose 1963 Supreme Court case was a major test of the right to legal representation; in Panama City, Florida. Gideon had no lawyer during a trial in which he was found guilty of stealing change and cases of beer, wine and Coke from a pool hall. He filed his own appeal to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the poor must be provided free counsel in serious criminal cases. During the retrial, Turner undermined previous testimony and presented an alternative culprit, winning Gideon's release...
Legal experts agree that much--if not all--of the tragic and costly legal wrangling could have been avoided if Terri Schiavo had written a living will and named a health-care proxy. "There's no question about it," says New York City estate-planning attorney Gideon Rothschild. "The person she named [as her proxy] would have had exclusive rights to make health-care decisions...
...combination of Gideon Lester and Brighde Mullins’s playwriting classes, because Gideon taught about strict form and dramatic structure and Brighde helped bring out the creative ideas...
...assisted future Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas in 1962 with the preparation of a brief on behalf of Clarence E. Gideon, a destitute Florida man who was tried and convicted without legal representation...
...next year, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that the government must provide attorneys to those who cannot afford them...