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12 pages in length. Gideon's Trumpet is an account of a precedent setting ruling that changed the landscape of the American legal system. False accusations and time spent in jail were the catalysts to Gideon's hell-bent journey through the unfriendly maze of a system whereby only certain American citizens are bestowed the luxury of legal council based upon their ability to pay for it. Gideon's quest to challenge this system proved quite fruitful for a man whose own unsavory background might present him as a rather interesting choice for championing such a cause. Nonetheless, the previous offender took the opportunity availed to him by a nation of freedom fighters to secure one more right that was being withheld by the highest court in the land: a constitutional entitlement to lawful representation by the state despite the inability to pay. Along the winding path of this judicial journey, readers find out just how inequitable the United States court system has long been and come to rally behind a convicted criminal who strives to alter the skewed system for not only his benefit but also all who come behind him without the ability to afford legal representation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to counsel at the expense of the state,"1 is an account of a precedent setting ruling that changed the landscape of the American legal system. False accusations and time
spent in jail were the catalysts to Gideons hell-bent journey through the unfriendly maze of a system whereby only certain American citizens are bestowed the luxury of legal council based
upon their ability to pay for it. Gideons quest to challenge this system proved quite fruitful for a man whose own unsavory background might present him as a rather
interesting choice for championing such a cause. Nonetheless, the previous offender took the opportunity availed to him by a nation of freedom fighters to secure one more right that
was being withheld by the highest court in the land: a constitutional entitlement to lawful representation by the state despite the inability to pay. Along the winding path of
this judicial journey, readers find out just how inequitable the United States court system has long been and come to rally behind a convicted criminal who strives to alter the
skewed system for not only his benefit but also all who come behind him without the ability to afford legal representation. ...[Despite a lifetime of prison sentences], a flame
still burned in Clarence Earl Gideon. He had not given up caring about life or freedom; he had not lost his sense of injustice. Right now he had
a passionate - some thought almost irrational - feeling of having been wronged by the State of Florida, and he had the determination to try to do something about it.2
II. OVERVIEW The legal - as well as social - implications of Gideons Trumpet are such that the Constitution exists for a reason and was not written in its
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