This year marks six decades since the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, a decision that forever altered the landscape of the American system of justice. The promise of Gideon was ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Karen Houppert provides an overview of the facts, ruling, and impact of the Supreme Court's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision. In 1963, ...

In 2013, it seems ludicrous that there could ever have been an issue as to whether a citizen accused of a felony in a state court proceeding should have the right to the assistance of counsel, but ...

This piece was published in coordination with Zealous, an organization working to amplify the perspective of public defenders. Learn more about the history of public defense at This Is Defense. But ...

A seminal American legal case has come to be known by the name of the book and made-for-TV movie that popularized it as “Gideon’s Trumpet.” The first Gideon, he of biblical fame, was a military leader ...

For years the popular belief has been, if you’re charged with a crime, the last person you want representing you is a public defender. The image of a public defender is an overworked, underpaid hack ...

“How can you defend those people?” That is the question criminal defense attorneys face at family functions, social gatherings and watering holes. Like many of my colleagues, I have a standard answer: ...

Thursday marks the anniversary of the Gideon v. Wainwright case being decided. The landmark Supreme Court case originates in Bay County. Clarence Gideon was accused of breaking and entering, and ...

This week marks the 60th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court ruling. In Gideon v. Wainwright, the high court said everyone, regardless of income, has a fundamental right to a lawyer. Here's ...

State capitals from Honolulu to Augusta, Maine, heard Gideon’s trumpet when the U.S. Supreme Court sounded it in 1963. But Harrisburg has remained deaf for 60 years to the clarion call to provide ...