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What supreme court case incorporated the right to a speedy trial?
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
What was the outcome of the case of Gideon vs Wainwright?
Gideon vs. Wainwright is a US Supreme Court Case from 1963. The vote was unanimous. This court case decided under the fourth amendment, state courts are required to provide an attorney in criminal cases when the defendant cannot afford one.
What principle was established by the 1963 Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright?
Those who cannot hire a lawyer shall have counsel provided for them.
Prior to the Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, why was Clarence Gideon in jail?
Being refused a lawyer by the state of Florida..... apex... makes no sense to me but its right apparently
How long was each sentence served by Clarence Earl Gideon the Appellee of Gideon v. Wainwright?
Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 US 335 (1963)Clarence Earl Gideon served two years of a five year sentence for the original 1961 conviction of "breaking and entering with intent to commit petty larceny," a felony in the state of Florida. Gideon entered prison in August 1961 and was released in August 1963 after the US Supreme Court remanded the case for rehearing. The second jury deliberated only an hour before acquitting Gideon in his second trial.Gideon was a petty criminal who had spent most of the previous three decades in and out of Texas and Missouri state prisons on charges of burglary, stealing, larceny, petty theft and escape. He had also been incarcerated in federal prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for stealing unspecified government property.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
