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Book/Printed Material Clarence Earl Gideon, Petitioner, vs. Louis L. Wainwright, Director, Department of Corrections, Respondent.

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Title

  • Clarence Earl Gideon, Petitioner, vs. Louis L. Wainwright, Director, Department of Corrections, Respondent.

Summary

  • In the landmark case of Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the right of an individual to legal counsel, even in cases not involving capital offenses. Clarence Earl Gideon was convicted of burglary and sentenced to five years imprisonment in a case in which the trial judge had refused his request for counsel. As an inmate, Gideon wrote and filed a lawsuit against the secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, asking for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that he had been denied legal counsel and thus imprisoned illegally. The Florida Supreme Court confirmed the earlier circuit court ruling, denying Gideon's appeal. In 1963, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the ruling of the Florida court, thereby establishing the principle that state courts were required to provide defendants in criminal cases with legal counsel. The then U.S. attorney general, and later senator, Robert F. Kennedy described the case as having changed the course of American legal history. This document is the decision of the court when the case was retried (this time with representation for Gideon) five months after the Supreme Court decision. Gideon was acquitted.

Names

  • Florida Supreme Court Author.

Created / Published

  • Tallahassee, Florida : [publisher not identified], 1963.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Florida--Tallahassee
  • -  1963
  • -  Appellate courts
  • -  Gideon, Clarence Earl
  • -  Habeas corpus
  • -  Judicial opinions
  • -  Political science

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Supreme Court Case files, 1825-2009. Case No. 31116. Clarence Earl Gideon, Petitioner, vs. Louis L. Wainwright, Director, Department of Corrections, Respondent (Opinion filed May 15, 1963)."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 10 pages.
  • -  Original resource at: State Library and Archives of Florida.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667636

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Florida Supreme Court Author. Clarence Earl Gideon, Petitioner, vs. Louis L. Wainwright, Director, Department of Corrections, Respondent. [Tallahassee, Florida: publisher not identified, 1963] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667636/.

APA citation style:

Florida Supreme Court Author. (1963) Clarence Earl Gideon, Petitioner, vs. Louis L. Wainwright, Director, Department of Corrections, Respondent. [Tallahassee, Florida: publisher not identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667636/.

MLA citation style:

Florida Supreme Court Author. Clarence Earl Gideon, Petitioner, vs. Louis L. Wainwright, Director, Department of Corrections, Respondent. [Tallahassee, Florida: publisher not identified, 1963] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667636/>.