Winston Vazquez III: 6th Amendment Clarence Earl Gideon was a drifter who was very poor and had only an eighth-grade education. On the third day of June 1961, Gideon was charged and then arrested for stealing fifty dollars and a couple of drinks from the Pool House, which was a pool hall/bar. When Gideon was tried in court, he made a request for a lawyer because he did not have enough money to afford one. When Gideon requested a lawyer, he was denied by judge Henry Grady Cochran, who retired during the case and was replaced by Louie Lee Wainwright. Gideon claimed that the Supreme Court of the United States entitled him to be represented by counsel. Gideon was then denied a lawyer because the state law of Florida states that the court will only give an …show more content…
Because Gideon was not given a lawyer, he had no choice but to represent himself in his trial. Gideon, having no education in law, was unable to prove himself innocent and was found guilty of breaking and entering with plans to commit a misdemeanor. He was sentenced to five years in state prison, which gave him a lot of time to think and learn more about the constitution. While he was in prison, he did some studying and found that the sixth amendment of the constitution gave him the right to have effective assistance of counsel for his defense, which meant that the court had to give him an attorney because he could not provide one for himself. Another thing that Gideon did while in prison was that he filed a petition for habeas corpus claiming that the courts refusal to appoint effective assistance denied the rights given to him by the Bill of Rights. The
Prior to the case of Gideon v. Wainwright, defendant Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking and entering in the state of Florida. This crime is a felony according to Florida state law. Unable to pay for defense counsel, Gideon requested that the court grant him one for free. The court denied Gideon his request of being granted defense counsel. The court stated, “Under the laws of the State of Florida, the only time the Court can appoint Counsel to represent a Defendant is when that person charged with a capital offense.”
In A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow (Skyhorse Publishing, 2016), Dallas author Mike Farris recounts the events surrounding two explosive and racially charged trials in early 1930s Hawaii involving a group of Pacific Islander and Asian men, known collectively as the Ala Moana Boys, who were the Hawaiian equivalents of their more notorious black contemporaries, the Scottsboro Boys of Alabama. Farris, who was inspired to write the A Death in the Islands after stumbling upon Theon Wright’s Rape in Paradise in a bookstore in Hawaii more than 20 years ago, artfully weaves together separate incidents that occurred during the early morning hours of Sunday, September 13, 1931. While the author states in
As the trial came to a close end the jury announced that Clarence Earl Gideon was guilty, and was convicted five years in prison. While being in jail Gideon filed a petition before the Florida Supreme Court declaring that the State of Florida had proclaimed an unfair case trial by denying him his Sixth Amendment the Right to the Assistance of Counsel. The petition sent to the Supreme Court was denied. Next, Gideon did not fall back; he appealed his case to the U.S Supreme Court claiming that putting him on trial without a lawyer was unfair due to the fact that it denied him due process of law against the 14th Amendment. The U.S Supreme Court came to a conclusion to review Gideon’s case, which
Gideon’s Trumpet Summary Clarence Earl Gideon was convicted of breaking and entering in a pool room. He went to court and got sentenced to 5 years in the state penitentiary he served 2 years for a crime he did not camet .He sent a letter to the supreme court exercising his right that everyone had to have a lawyer. The supreme court decided to let him retake the court and he was found not guilty. This court session was decided that everyone that couldn't afford a lawyer was guaranteed one .
Now anyone can get a court appointed counsel. “The right to appointed counsel has been extended to misdemeanor and juvenile proceedings”(The Legacy of Gideon v. Wainwright). “Clarence Earl Gideon was an unlikely hero. He was a man with an eighth-grade education who ran away from home when he was in middle school” (Facts and Case Summary - Gideon v. Wainwright). Gideon gave criminals the right to a fair trial making him a definite hero.
The Second Amendment essay If you were walking on the streets and some body came up and tried to hurt you, how would you react? The second Amendment allows us to keep and bare our arms to ourselves. This Amendment guarantees that We can that we could defend ourselves just like what a twelve year old girl in Bryan County did.
The Equal Justice Initiative set up by Bryan Stevenson has brought about many changes to the court system and the lives of many people. Stevenson has represented many different people, the majority of which were on death row for unjust reasons. Herbert Richardson, a Vietnam veteran with mental disabilities, was sentenced to death row after a bomb he made accidentally went off killing a child. Another man named Avery Jenkins, a man born with mental disabilities, stabbed a man to death believing the man was a demon trying to kill Avery. Although these cases have similarities and differences, they both show how flawed the judicial system is.
Mduduzi Mahlangu-BTh2-NT 1-Dr Bruce Button-Mukhanyo Theological College Exegesis of Luke 10:25-37 Introduction The passage (Luke 10:25-37) of the parable of the Good Samaritan is the second parable in Luke’s Gospel and it falls under the 5th division of the Gospel according to Luke which is “The mission of the Saviour.” It is an exemplary parable of behaviour.