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Article: One poor man's legacy. (Clarence Gideon)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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After Mohammed Salameh's arrest in the World Trade Center bombing, a public defender emerged as the Jordanian's legal adviser. Attorneys for indigent defendants usually play less prominent roles. But the very fact that they are available to the poor at all and play such a crucial role in the justice apparatus is a tribute to a handwritten plea from a man named Clarence Earl Gideon. Arrested in 1961 for stealing coins and alcohol from a Panama City, Fla., pool hall, Gideon could not afford a lawyer. After he was convicted and sent to prison for five years, he mailed an appeal to the Supreme Court. Thirty years ago this week, the justices used Gideon's plight to declare ...
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