HIST 3850 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - The Expansion of Civil Rights in the 60s.docx
21 Apr 2014
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Impoverished, no assets, no credit: clarence earl gideon, age 51, career minor criminal, appealing from florida on theft conviction, white man, served time for 4 previous convictions, frail body, white hair, on june 3, 1961 someone broke into a pool hall in panama city, florida and robbed it in the middle of the night, someone broke the jukebox and had stolen coins from each cigarette machine, later, a witness said they had seen gideon leaving with pocket bulging and carrying a bottle of wine (stolen also, police charged him with breaking and entering and petty larsony, had no resources or lawyer, no evidence in his favour, convicted and received a sentence of 5 years in prison, more to do with previous record with actual crime, felt his conviction was unjust, filed a writ habeus corpus, claimed the state had no right to convict him, conviction was unconventional and.
