Defending Gideon
Defending Gideon
Assistir defending gideon Pobre TV. Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking into a pool hall. He could not afford a lawyer to defend him in court, and after a hasty trial, he was convicted. Had Gideon accepted his fate, he'd have been imprisoned for five years. But Gideon did challenge his conviction -all the way to the Supreme Court. The result was the landmark case Gideon v. Wainwright, which guarantees poor defendants the right to counsel in criminal cases.
- Gênero: Documentário
- País: United States
- Diretor: Rebecca Richman Cohen
- Atores: Martin Sheen, Clarence Earl Gideon,
