CSPAN3 Landmark Cases Supreme Court Landmark Case Gideon V. Wainwright July 12, 2024
Are ones that the court made very unpopular decisions. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stuck together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Tonights case is gideon versus wayne. Wreck 55 years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to counsel was so fundamental to our dove governmental system. That states must provide lawyers for defendants who cannot afford. One the hero of tonights story is a bit of an unlikely. One Clarence G...