DEBATE: GIDEON AT 40: FACING THE CRISIS, FULFILLING THE PROMISE

The American Criminal Law Review | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

Clarence Earl Gideon, a Florida inmate, handwrote a petition to the United States Supreme Court, asking the Justices to reverse his conviction because he did not have a lawyer representing him at trial. Not only did the Supreme Court accept his petition and appoint counsel to argue his case to the Court, it also issued a landmark opinion guaranteeing the right to counsel in all state felony cases, even for those defendants who could not afford one. In the famed Gideon v. Wainwright decision, issued on March 18, 1963, the Court ruled that "[t]he right of one charged with crime to counsel may ...

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