The decision applied retroactively to convicts who had been tried without lawyers, and, just as the lawmen expected, by 1965 Gideon v. Wainwright had freed more than 1,000 Florida prisoners.

He provided the research and drafts that helped bring about the Supreme Court’s landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision in 1963. By Clay Risen Abe Krash, who as a junior partner at the law firm ...

The Supreme Court's 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright is a pledge of equal justice under the law. It's up to us to uphold it.

March 18 is the anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, a case from 1963 in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that every person accused of a crime in America must be provided with legal ...

Legal community celebrates Gideon v. Wainwright on Nov. 6 The Jacksonville Chapter of the Federal Bar Association is hosting an evening dedicated to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision.

STATEWIDE — In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, New York State Bar Association President Sherry Levin Wallach used the ...

The court ruled on March 18, 1963, in Gideon v. Wainwright. A drifter with an eighth-grade education, Clarence Earl Gideon was convicted in Florida of burglary and sentenced to five years in prison.

The Gideon v. Wainwright ruling, which guarantees lawyers for criminal defendants, just turned 60. Justice Clarence Thomas isn’t a fan of the precedent it set.

Saturday, March 18, 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright that criminal defendants have a right to a lawyer.

Sixty years ago today, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright. The court held that states must abide by the Sixth Amendment and that those whose liberty is threatened ...