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...appointed by the Supreme Court to represent Florida Convict Clarence Earl Gideon in his milestone battle to establish that any man who faces trial but cannot afford to pay a lawyer is entitled to counsel, even in state courts, for anything beyond a petty offense...
...REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The story of Clarence Gideon, the Florida convict whose appeal to the Supreme Court resulted in new trials for himself and hundreds of other petty criminals, based on New York Times Reporter Anthony Lewis' excellent book, Gideon's Trumpet...
...bans evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure. But then came 1961's Mapp v. Ohio, ordering all states to obey the rule that even if illegally seized evidence shows guilt the defendant may be freed because the police violated the Constitution. Far less controversial: 1963's Gideon v. Wainwright, which overturned the conviction of Florida Indigent Clarence Earl Gideon, applies the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel to all defendants in state criminal courts. Overriding precedents going back to 1908, the Court last year said that under the Fifth Amendment a state cannot compel a person...
...Lewis Gideon's Trumpet...
...lively account of Clarence Earl Gideon, the jailhouse lawyer who changed the law of the land, is used to animate a complex subject-the changing philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court in the past quarter-century...