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When the reason is race
Cole, David | March 15, 1999 issue

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No case better captures the promise of the U.S. criminal justice system than the celebrated saga of Clarence Earl Gideon, the penniless drifter who in 1961 scribbled a handwritten note to the Supreme Court from prison and ultimately established the constitutional right of indigent criminal defendants to have a lawyer appointed and paid for by the state for their defense. Affirming the government's responsibility to provide equal treatment under law to defendants with unequal resources, Gideon's case was memorialized in Anthony Lewis's bestselling "Gideon's Trumpet" and made into a Hollywood movie starring that most American of actors, Henry Fonda.

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GIDEON, Clarence Earl; CRIMINAL law; ACTIONS & defenses; LIABILITY (Law); LAWYERS; CIVIL rights; UNITED States
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