Clarence Earl Gideon (August 30, 1910 – January 18, 1972) was an impoverished American drifter accused in a Florida state court of felony breaking and entering. While in prison, he appealed his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting in the landmark 1963 decision Gideon v.

Judge Robert McCrary Jr. said that the State of Florida laws only allow provision of counsel for capital offenses. Mr. Gideon petitioned to the U.S. Supreme Court and after two years of imprisonment he received a new trial with court-appointed lawyer Fred Turner. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

Convicted of breaking and entering in Florida, Clarence Earl Gideon set a major legal precedent when he challenged his conviction, claiming that he could not afford an attorney and should have been appointed one by the court.

2017年7月12日 · English: Mug shot of Clarence Earl Gideon at Florida State Prison on September 11, 1961.

Later that day, police arrested a semi-literate drifter, Clarence Earl Gideon, 50, with a pint of wine and change in his pockets after a witness said he saw him in the pool room at 5:30 a.m. At his arraignment, Gideon said he could not afford a lawyer and asked the judge to appoint one for him.

Police arrested Clarence Earl Gideon, who lived in a rooming house across the street from the poolroom, later that morning at a bar in Panama City. He had paid for a number of drinks with change, and had $25.28 with him, all in change, when …

Eyewitness testimony led to the arrest of Clarence Gideon, a 51-year-old drifter who occasionally helped out at the poolroom. He vehemently protested his innocence but two months later was placed on trial at the Panama City Courthouse.

2013年3月3日 · Clarence Earl Gideon, who was living across the street in a rooming house, was arrested later that morning and charged with the felony of breaking and entering with intent to commit petit larceny. Gideon appeared in the circuit court for Bay County, where he pled not guilty and asked for a lawyer.

Clarence Earl Gideon was arrested in 1961 and charged with breaking and entering into a pool hall and stealing money from vending machines. At trial, he requested a lawyer to represent him as he could not afford one himself.

In 1963, Clarence Gideon was arrested in Florida for breaking into a pool hall and stealing money out of a cigarette machine. Since Gideon was unable to afford an attorney, he represented himself in court. At the time, Florida only provided an attorney to …