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.
GIDEON ROSE is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he previously served as Mary and David Boies Distinguished Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy. From 2010 to 2021, Rose was ...
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 ...