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...public furor, says Craig, "no other decision would have been consistent with the dictates of the First Amendment." Far from being hostile to religion, the court simply sustained the long-held U.S. belief that "a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion." >Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which overturned a 1942 ruling that indigent defendants in state criminal trials are not necessarily entitled to court-appointed counsel. By its long-held reluctance to require such counsel, the court showed "respect for the concept of federalism." By finally acting, where states had failed...
...seven years--Leo (Marty Greenbaum), who is quiet and awkward, and Jack (Peter H. Beard), who is handsome and unpredictable. Since each suitor sees the girl differently, Vera is played by two actresses (Sheila Finn and Peggy Steffans). This is clever. In the eighth year Vera marries Gideon, who never appears; and Jack and Leo go off on a camping trip in the Vermont Hills to forget her. They find themselves unable to forget, however, and spend their time (and the audience's) recalling the courtship in a series of tedious, confusing, and meaningless flashbacks...
...There can be no equal justice," said the court, "where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has." Since then, the court has handed down several related rulings, notably the Gideon decision affirming the right to court-appointed counsel in all criminal cases if a defendant cannot afford to hire a lawyer (TIME...
...film begins. We are lost in the woods of Vermont, that's where, and so are those two schloonks on the screen. One is called Jack (Peter H. Beard) and the other Leo (Marty Greenbaum), and they are both in love with Vera. But Vera has just married Gideon and the boys are terribly upset. How could she! How could she be so cruel to two passionate admirers who have seen her at least once a year for the last seven years...
...tarnished soul, yearns for, reflects, and presupposes a radiant otherness called God. Compared to Justice's rigorous goading of the individual conscience, such religiously oriented plays as Eliot's The Cocktail Party, Greene's The Potting Shed, MacLeish's J.B. and Chayevsky's Gideon seem like Communion services for the morally complacent...