Opinion: Criminal defense attorney Alex King says that the Trump's administration's executive orders threaten criminal ...

The Supreme Court affirmed a right to counsel for people facing criminal charges, with Gideon v. Wainwright, only in 1963, when a Florida man who represented himself at trial challenged his ...

As legal challenges to the Trump administration mount, the justices are facing a key test — a flood of “emergency applications” asking for immediate intervention.

March 18 marked the 63rd anniversary of one of the Supreme Court’s most famous and impactful decisions, Gideon v. Wainwright.

SPRINGFIELD — In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that every person has a constitutional right to free legal representation in criminal cases, including poor people who ...

Trump targeted a second major US law firm Friday, two days after a federal judge put on hold an executive order intended to destroy the firm that represented Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election ...

In March 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark, unanimous decision in Gideon v. Wainwright that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to legal counsel for ...

Few Supreme Court decisions have been so universally admired as Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which reversed the burglary conviction of Clarence Gideon, a Florida indigent, because he had been ...

Like most Americans, Justice Potter Stewart heartily endorsed the Supreme Court's famous decision in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which ordered all American courts to provide lawyers for ...

To explain why indigent defendants have a right to a lawyer, she turns to Gideon v. Wainwright, which was decided in 1963, safely in the past. (She uses classic cases this way more than once.) ...

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.

Three years later, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that every defendant, even if indigent, is entitled to counsel, Patton was one of the many prisoners in U.S. jails to ...