Gideon’s Trumpet is Clarence Earl Gideon’s fight for legal justice. Accused of a crime, Gideon, penniless and denied an attorney, takes his case to the Supreme Court. His landmark battle establishes ...

State capitals from Honolulu to Augusta, Maine, heard Gideon’s trumpet when the U.S. Supreme Court sounded it in 1963. But Harrisburg has remained deaf for 60 years to the clarion call to provide ...

The story of Gideon’s vindication was beautifully told by the prize-winning author, and New York Times columnist, Anthony Lewis, in “Gideon’s Trumpet,” an instant classic used in classrooms across the ...

A seminal American legal case has come to be known by the name of the book and made-for-TV movie that popularized it as “Gideon’s Trumpet.” The first Gideon, he of biblical fame, was a military leader ...

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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal The U.S. Supreme Court’s March 18, 1963, ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright requiring state-funded legal representation to criminal ...

I was thinking some time back about what persuaded me to become a lawyer. Two books played a role. One was Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ and the other was ‘Gideon’s Trumpet’ by two-time ...

GIDEON’S TRUMPET by Anthony Lewis. 262 pages. Random House. $4.95. Every so often a book appears that behaves like a minor classic almost from the day of publication, with warmly welcoming reviews, ...

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), entrenched in American folklore by a bestselling book and a popular film, was one of the most famous decisions rendered by the Warren court. In a landmark opinion that ...