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Citizen & State. Asked by the court in 1962 to bring before it the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, prisoner No. 003826 at the Florida State Prison, Fortas, even as a private lawyer, was instrumental in shaping the decision that guaranteed any indigent defendant a court-appointed lawyer. Gideon was more than a case; it became an article of faith. As a member of the court, Fortas has supported other decisions that have radically broadened the rights of defendants. "We're not just dealing with the criminal and society," he once told an attorney who was arguing for the police point...
...Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) ruled that the state must provide free counsel for defendants who cannot afford a lawyer...
...long and distinguished record as a civil libertarian and a defender of State Department employees during the McCarthy era. He argued an insanity case that widened the old did-he-know-right-from-wrong test, and he was the court-appointed attorney who handled the appeal of Clarence Gideon who won for himself and all other indigents the right to a state-supplied lawyer in serious criminal cases...
...owned "sign plazas," where signs will be uniform and state-approved. Business will also be able to advertise in a new guidebook to vacation facilities, to be passed out at major entry points to the state. The guidebook, Vermont tourist officials promise, will be "more widely distributed than the Gideon Bible...
...given the world Thorsten Veblen and the Ringling brothers, Jack Lemmon and Joe McCarthy, Billy Mitchell and Frank Lloyd Wright, Edna Ferber and Harry Houdini. The state's contributions to American education include the first kindergarten and the first panty raid. It is the birthplace of the Gideon Society and the Republican Party...