Clarence Earl Gideon, a 50-year-old Florida man, was convicted of breaking and entering in a case that changed […] ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

To take one example, the majority opinion in the landmark 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright ... But the people in these cases have lives that began before their moment in Supreme Court ...

The film discusses the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon ... the ongoing challenges faced by poor defendants. Keywords Gideon v. Wainwright, right to counsel, Supreme Court, fair trial ...

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 ...