Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the justices unanimously affirmed a constitutional right to a lawyer for criminal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years the popular belief has been, if you’re charged with a crime, the last person you want representing you is a public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous landmark ruling intended to create a more equitable criminal justice system. In California, we are still waiting for the change ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Arnold, ...

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“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: ...

TALLAHASSEE — Louie Wainwright, a longtime leader of Florida’s corrections system whose name is on the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright concerning the rights of defendants, ...

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 ...