Indigent criminal representation arose from the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright establishing the right ...

The movie is directed by Dawn Porter. Its title comes from Gideon v. Wainwright, which required that indigent criminal defendants be offered counsel at trial. The film received the Ridenhour ...

The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Tuesday it will determine whether an alleged violation of a man's constitutional ...

5. "Gideon's Trumpet" by Anthony Lewis "Gideon's Trumpet" recounts the pivotal story of Clarence Earl Gideon, whose case, Gideon v. Wainwright, secured the right to court-appointed legal ...

Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the common law rule that the insane cannot be executed; therefore the petitioner is entitled to a competency ...

“This crisis is an opportunity to give promise to Gideon’s promise,” he said, referencing the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, that determined the Constitution requires states to ...

Iowa has one of the most aggressive court systems in the country when it comes to billing defendants for court-appointed attorneys, even in cases where they're acquitted or charges are dropped.

The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants the right to counsel under the landmark 1963 Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright. It is as much a "gift" as the First Amendment right to ...

In 2019, conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch wrote an opinion, eluding they disagreed with Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark 1963 Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed the right to ...