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 ...

Landmark Supreme Court decisions, including Gideon v. Wainwright and Miranda v. Arizona, established constitutional ...

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 ...

Every March 18, the legal community observes Gideon Day, marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright. The case is a civics textbook staple: Clarence Earl ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Karen Houppert provides an overview of the facts, ruling, and impact of the Supreme Court's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision. In 1963, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Jurists and attorneys talked about the impact of Gideon v. Wainwright, the 1963 Supreme Court landmark case that ruled criminal defendants at the ...

“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: ...

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 ...