CBS Reports looked at the landmark Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed to right to counsel for criminal defendants. The documentary included interviews with Clarence Gideon ...

State Court of Claims Judge Betty Calvo-Torres wants the state's Unified Court System to consider an increase in virtual ...

Starting with Gideon v. Wainwright, (372 US 335 [1963]), the right to counsel in criminal proceedings became a nationwide right for all defendants. Our Court of Appeals, in Matter of Ella B., ...

Iowa should stop it. Sixty-one years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Gideon v. Wainwright, ruling unanimously that criminal defendants in state courts had the right to the assistance of ...

His handwritten appeal led to a unanimous 1963 ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright that all criminal defendants have a right to ...

America’s criminal courts are facing a crisis, namely the lack of public defenders and court appointed attorneys to defend ...

The first decision was Gideon v. Wainwright, handed down in 1963 by a unanimous vote, which stipulated that if a defendant in a criminal case could not afford a lawyer the state had to provide one ...

and the realities of “effective assistance of counsel” fifty years after Gideon v. Wainwright. Mr Porter is an Assistant Federal Defender at the Office of the Federal Defender for the Eastern District ...

Arizona and Gideon v. Wainwright)—he has represented criminal defendants before the Supreme Court himself—he maintained that the Warren Court nevertheless “did so much less than it needed to ...

Under the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gideon v. Wainwright, a criminal defendant cannot receive a fair trial without a lawyer, but no such guarantee exists for low-income civil defendants.

His handwritten appeal led to a unanimous 1963 ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright that all criminal defendants have a right to counsel. Moved by his case when she studied it in law school ...