For years the popular belief has been, if you’re charged with a crime, the last person you want representing you is a public defender. The image of a public defender is an overworked, underpaid hack ...

Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the justices unanimously affirmed a constitutional right to a lawyer for criminal ...

This year marks six decades since the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, a decision that forever altered the landscape of the American system of justice. The promise of Gideon was ...

STATEWIDE — In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, New York State Bar Association President Sherry Levin Wallach used the opportunity ...

The right to counsel was established 60 years ago last month in the landmark Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright. The persistent failure to honor that right calls into question the legitimacy of ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago today, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright. The court held that states must abide by the Sixth Amendment and that those whose liberty is threatened ...

This week marks the 60th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court case that guaranteed criminal defendants the right to a lawyer. That guarantee has been challenged by budgets and high demand. This ...

Sixty years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous landmark ruling intended to create a more equitable criminal justice system. In California, we are still waiting for the change ...

Few Supreme Court decisions have been so universally admired as Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which reversed the burglary conviction of Clarence Gideon, a Florida indigent, because he had been denied ...

This piece was published in coordination with Zealous, an organization working to amplify the perspective of public defenders. Learn more about the history of public defense at This Is Defense. But ...