CSPAN2 Book TV After Words April 29, 2013
i really enjoyed your book, "chasing gideon," and i thought it was published on march 18th which is the 50th anniversary of the supreme court decision in gideon versus wainwright and i thought we could start at the beginning. who was clarence earl gideon, because as you point out in your book he was a somewhat unlikely figure to have made such an impact on history. >> guest: clarence earl gideon was an itinerant chap living down in florida, and he broke into a pool hall, was accused of breaking into a pool hall and accused of stealing some change from a jukebox, a couple beers and a ...