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 ...
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 ...
And if he cannot afford a lawyer, ruled the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wain-bright (1963), one must be supplied by the court. Gideon clearly covers civilians, but what about U.S. servicemen?
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 ...
Gideon Verdin is TMJ4's Northern Milwaukee County Reporter. Gideon's passion for Milwaukee runs deep. Since 2012, he's worked on the city's biggest stories as a TMJ4 editor and photojournalist ...