Defending Gideon
Defending Gideon
Defending Gideon at Fmovies. Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking into a pool hall. He could not afford a lawyer to defend him in court, and after a hasty trial, he was convicted. Had Gideon accepted his fate, he'd have been imprisoned for five years. But Gideon did challenge his conviction -all the way to the Supreme Court. The result was the landmark case Gideon v. Wainwright, which guarantees poor defendants the right to counsel in criminal cases.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: United States
- Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen
- Cast: Martin Sheen, Clarence Earl Gideon,
