Saturday, March 18, 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright that criminal defendants have a right to a lawyer.
Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of thein which the justices unanimously affirmed a constitutional right to a lawyer for criminal defendants who could not afford one.
"Gideon seemed a man whose own private hopes and fears had long since been deadened by adversity – a used-up man, looking years older than his actual age of . He appeared gaunt, a stooped 6 feet, 140 pounds."An appeal to the Florida Supreme Court was denied, so he launched another. — Abe Fortas, the court-appointed private attorney and future Supreme Court justice who argued Gideon's appeal before the high court, Jan. 15, 1963
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