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Defending Gideon (2013)
Directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen
Documentary · 30m
Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking into a pool hall. He could not afford a lawyer to defend him in court, and after a hasty trial, he was convicted. Had Gideon accepted his fate, he'd have been imprisoned for five years. But Gideon did challenge his conviction -all the way to the Supreme Court. The result was the landmark case Gideon v. Wainwright, which guarantees poor defendants the right to counsel in criminal cases.
Cast
Martin Sheen
Crew
- Director
- Rebecca Richman Cohen
- Writer
- Rebecca Richman Cohen, Francisco Bello
- Producer
- Rebecca Richman Cohen
Details
- Release date
- 2013-03-18
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- New Media Advocacy Project, Racing Horse Productions