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.

Opinion: It’s Maine’s duty to solve its years-old public defender crisis The Legislature should take steps to create a new, independent public defense system that's financed by social impact ...

March 18 marked the 63rd anniversary of one of the Supreme Court’s most famous and impactful decisions, Gideon v. Wainwright. This landmark decision asserted that criminal defendants who cannot ...

As county officials honored Gideon Day—a recognition of the Mar. 18 1963 Supreme Court decision in Gideon v.

His handwritten appeal to the Supreme Court led to a unanimous 1963 ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright that all criminal defendants have a right to counsel. At his second trial, Gideon was acquitted.

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 ...

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 ...

Abe Krash, Right to a Lawyer: The Implications of Gideon v. Wainwright, 39 Notre Dame L. Rev. 150, 154 (1964).

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.