HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Clarence Earl Gideon, In Forma Pauperis, Ernesto Miranda
17 Feb 2017
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Lecture: the expansion of civil rights in the 1960s: the increasing importance of. These cases resulted in the broadening of american civil rights. Due process meant that a confession needed to be given voluntarily (without torture), the right to the assistance of a lawyer, and an unbiased court. Age 51 (born in 1905) white man. Career as minor criminal (but only because he could not get a job- started gambling and doing minor thefts) Five year prison sentence for a petty break entry (the jukebox was opened and the coins were stolen) at local pool hall. Witnesses saw gideon leaving with bulging pockets (with change) and with a bottle of wine, which he likely stole. Gideon came to court without a lawyer because he could not afford one. The case ended up turning the focus on the fact that he did not have a lawyer, because the state was entitled to provide council to every single defendant.
