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 ...

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

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., ...

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

On her office walls and atop the fireplace mantle, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court displays her own history, and that of the nation.

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.

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 ...

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, Jackson ...