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...GIDEON'S TRUMPET by Anthony Lewis. 262 pages. Random House...
...book appears that behaves like a minor classic almost from the day of publication, with warmly welcoming reviews, steady if not spectacular sales week after week, and a widening circle of quietly unanimous recognition for its unique excellences. In the three months since it came out, Anthony Lewis' Gideon's Trumpet has already established itself as that kind of book. It is not an out-of-the-way literary curiosity but something in some ways tougher to bring off: a sound, literate, readable introduction to an important though difficult subject-in this case, the changing philosophy...
What makes defense of the poor "a matter of first importance and endeavor," urged the A.B.A. report, is the Supreme Court's changing stance, a stream of decisions requiring that state criminal procedures be raised to federal standards. Most celebrated: last year's Gideon case, in which the Court ruled that all courts must provide lawyers for all indigents charged with serious crimes...
...first and biggest public-defender office - a $1,000,000-a-year operation that began in 1914 and now has 69 fulltime lawyers plus ten skilled investigators. Last year the office handled 32,000 cases. Less happy is the situation in Florida, the very state that provided the Gideon case. Florida was obliged to install 16 public defenders throughout the state, but the legislature authorized so little money that even Miami's big-city defender gets only $22,750 a year for himself, two assistants and their combined expenses. Tampa's Defender Joseph G. Spicola, who personally gets...
...Rules. Last week, in a ruling that will cause profound changes in American criminal procedures, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Danny's conviction. In last year's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision, the court held that every defendant in a state or federal criminal trial is entitled to counsel. In Danny's case, the court extended the Gideon principle and ruled that a person is entitled to consult with counsel as soon as an investigation makes him a prime suspect...