Defending Gideon

Defending Gideon (2013)

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18/03/2013 • 0h 30m
original-title

Defending Gideon

status

Released

production-companies

New Media Advocacy Project

Racing Horse Productions

original-language

English

budget

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revenue

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Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking into a pool hall. He could not afford a lawyer to defend him in court, and after a hasty trial, he was convicted. Had Gideon accepted his fate, he'd have been imprisoned for five years. But Gideon did challenge his conviction -all the way to the Supreme Court. The result was the landmark case Gideon v. Wainwright, which guarantees poor defendants the right to counsel in criminal cases.

production-countries

United States of America

spoken-languages

English

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